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" But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls 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... "
Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution - Página 264
por William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 páginas
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The Genius and Character of Burns

John Wilson - 1845 - 248 páginas
...spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed Or like the snowfalls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." Next instant he returns to Tam; and, humanized by that exquisite poetry, we cannot help being sorry...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 páginas
...O'er a' the ills of life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 páginas
...flow'r—its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white—then melts forever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the*rain bow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.— Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour...
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The Complete Works Of Robert Burns

1845 - 440 páginas
...Kings may he hlest, hut Tum was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! Or like the horealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainhow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide : The hour approaches...
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 páginas
...in a series of beautiful similes : — But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts, depressed by his condition,...
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Jane Bouverie; Or, Prosperity and Adversity

Catherine Sinclair - 1846 - 338 páginas
...pleasures are like poppies spread; We snatch the flower, the bloom is fled; Or like the snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit e'er you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm. LADY...
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Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide ...

Capel Lofft - 1846 - 528 páginas
...thoughts are floating in the brain, and probably about to die into nothing, to vanish away for ever, — " Like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or, like Ihe snow falls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever " ; upon that comes this potent interceder,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial ...

Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 páginas
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing am'nl the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride , That hour...
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Hill and Valley, Or, Wales and the Welsh

Catherine Sinclair - 1848 - 478 páginas
...Books are all " like poppies spread, We seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." If no works were published but those professedly written for the press, printers might leave off business....
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 páginas
...flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." Were there ever such beautiful reflections upon such a scene ? And think of the suddenness of the transition...
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