...its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, — A moment white — then lost forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — BURNS. 7. Give Pleasure's name to naught but what has passed The authentic seal of Reason, and...

...They are so evanescent and so changeable, that it may almost be said they are " Like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever : Or like the borealis race, That flit ere ye can point the place." This renders them difficult to sketch, however I have endeavored to represent...

...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...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." This is very true. The men of pleasure have been amongst the most miserable of men. If we wish to be...

...Or like the enow-falls in the river, A niumeat white — then melts for ever ; Or like the boreali» race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or...man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o* night's black arch the key-staner That dreary hour he mounts hie beast...

...life victorious! But pleasures arc like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; tti Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever; Or like the boreahs race. That fiit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely...

...happy. 72 Robert Burns, Tarn O'Shanur. "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" (59-62). 73 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, 1816 text. Chan the music of the swinging...

...lasses) (Kinsley 1968:443) lines 59-66: 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...

...contemporaries with whose work he was familiar. 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. (Tam O 'Sbanter) tradition of Scottish songs and ballads as the basis of many of his lyrical poems,...

...'Tarn o' Shanter' ( 1 79 1 ) I. 57 13 Hut pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the llow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever. 'Tarn o' Shanter' ( 1 79 1 ) 1. S9 14 Nae man can tether time or tide. Tarn o' Shanter' (1791)...

...English-language moralising in a set of variations: But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river,...like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.56 This same passage surely underpins not the vocabulary but several key images brought together...