 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 288 σελίδες
...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 the snow lulls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 σελίδες
...Kings may be blest, but Turn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! Or like the boreal» race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow'» lovely form Evnnifchiug amid the stürm. — Nao man can tether time or tide ¡ The hour... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1838 - 478 σελίδες
...contemporaries. 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...their place, — Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." If no works were published but those professedly written for the press,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 σελίδες
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed j Or like .the snow-falls h poortith hourly stare him ; A man may tak a neebor's part, Yet hae пае cash to spare him. Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 σελίδες
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." Still more affecting and impressive is the manner in which he described... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1838 - 406 σελίδες
...like poojifeaVprQa'd,.' We seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls iniSiKrrtdn/ ' A moment white — then melts 'for. ever: Or like...their place, — Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." If no works were published but those professedly written for the press,... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 σελίδες
...pleasures arc like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls loved — such tears he shed, While each soft scene of summer hea horealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainhow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 σελίδες
...flower, its bloom is sped ; 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 lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. GENIUS.— WILLIS Oh how poor M ARIA.— COLERIDOI. Her early youth passed... | |
 | Albert Fenton - 1839 - 364 σελίδες
...cavalry cantonment of Sultanpore away on our starboard bow. 'Tis gone ! — disappeared like a vision, " Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place." And see ! — here is the Fort of Chunar on the rock to our left — Chunar, so celebrated for its... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 564 σελίδες
...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow.r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the sno tv falls in the river, A moment white — then melts...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts,... | |
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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... 
