 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 psl.
...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 lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. —... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 psl.
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; O^ like the snow-falls in a 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 form, Evanishin amid the storm. —... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 psl.
...excursion, I can scarcely think it real, so faint a trace has it left behind. 'Tis 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 form, Evanishing amid the storm.*... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 psl.
...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 form Evanishing amid the storm.... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 350 psl.
...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 their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 psl.
...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, ^Thal flit ere you can point their place } Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm."... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 psl.
...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 boreulis raee, That flit ere you ean point their plaee ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 psl.
...works are like to poppies strewn, You seize the fiWr, the bloom is gone : Or, like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or, like the Borealis' race, Which flits ere you can point the place; Or, like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amidst the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 psl.
...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 form, Evanishing amid the storm.-—... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 psl.
...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 form Evanishing amid the storm. —... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' 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 for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their... 
