...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;...the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm : Nae man can tether time or tidej The hour approaches Tans maun ride. * • • ' • * » * Before...

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...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...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black...

...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...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishin amid the storm. — • Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tttm maun ride...

...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,...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black...

...enjoyed in this little 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 —...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.* IT seems as if my whole life had been a life of misery, while the swift moments of happiness have scarce...

...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;...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. "s But the charm will be renewed ; and real poetry will always delight, as it re-appears, in spite...

...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."...

...FULL-BLOWN poppies overcharged with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain. POPE. PLEASURES are like poppies spread,— You seize the flower, the...shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever! BURNS. SLEEP is a god too proud to wait in palaces, And yet so humble...

...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...