 | 1909 - 340 páginas
...EVANESCENT PLEASURES. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 páginas
...then surrounded^. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever. This second edition is published with the ardent hope that it may, in some sort, contribute to teach affliction... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...then surrounded. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white— then melts for ever. This second edition is published with the ardent hope that it may, in some sort, contribute to teach affliction... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 páginas
...life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or ,h2,?qP ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 páginas
...then surrounded. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever. and who steadily employ their gift of reason for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate."... | |
 | 1876 - 396 páginas
...tells us that — ' " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | 1915 - 558 páginas
...inanis qui visitur in aquisr momento temporis enascens simul et evanescens," which suggests Burns's Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever. A more expanded comparison between a bubble and the life of man will be found in Lucian's ' Charon,'... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 páginas
...of its congeners. BUT pleasures are like poppies spread, You seizo the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the borcalis race, That tíit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Christians - 1856 - 452 páginas
...country's poet : — " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 424 páginas
...question." But — " pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flower — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; , Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point then. place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever... 
