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" O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, 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... "
Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ... - Page 159
by General reader - 1827 - 188 pages
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The Theosophist, Volume 30

Theosophy - 1909 - 340 pages
...that is by Yoga, that is by " attention and practice." WILLIAM H. KIRBY. 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...
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Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Volume 2

Robert Burns - Scotland - 1800 - 308 pages
...flow'r, its bloom is fhed ; Or Or like the fnow falls in the ri A moment white then melts for ever £ Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place j Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanifhing amid the ftorm. — Nae man can tether time or tide...
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Tales of Wonder;, Volume 2

Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...pleasure : Kings may be bless'd, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a'5 the hills o' life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, 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...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 1-2

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1805 - 908 pages
...wi' pleasure : Kings mny be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread; ^ You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; 1 Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of ..., Volume 2

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1806 - 416 pages
...pleasure : » Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. "But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower,...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;,-, ' . -,...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Poems formerly published, with some additions ...

Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...victorious ! i But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or 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...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Collated with the Best Editions, Volumes 1-2

Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow Y, 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...
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The London review, conducted by R. Cumberland, Volume 1

Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...of that word. Such are the following: " 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 tor ever ; ******* Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." — (Vol. III. p....
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The Ruminator: Containing a Series of Moral, Critical, and ..., Volume 2

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...the charm is gone ; they separate the parts, and find nothing in them. We may say with Burns, These " pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the...snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, ^Thal flit ere you can point their place } Or like the rainbow's...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 25

England - 1829 - 840 pages
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is »he«J." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified...
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