 Pleasures are like poppies spread — We seize the flower, the bloom is shed; Or like the snow-flake on the river, A moment white, then melts forever; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.  Memoirs of Mr. Matthias D'Amour - 第 192 頁Paul Rodgers 著 - 1836 - 215 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 頁
...meadows, which are introduced as the illustration. The last passage I shall quote from Burns : — " Pleasures are like poppies spread — We seize the flower, the bloom is fled ; Or like the snow-falls in the river — A moment white, then lost for ever ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Benjamin Brierley - 1885 - 348 頁
...that fly about the saloon fluttered up to the deck ; and we had " society " until lunch time. " But pleasures are like poppies spread ; We seize the flower — the bloom is shed. Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere we can name the place." A bright morning, even in England,... | |
 | Sam Porter Jones - 1885 - 304 頁
...the pleasures of sin beguile us. Burns had the right to speak, and I know he was right when he said: Pleasures are like poppies spread — We seize the flower, the bloom is shed; Or like the snow-flake on the river, A moment white, then melts forever; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1919 - 438 頁
...of Holmes has the same meter and rhyme. Compare Burns' lines with the eighth stanza of Holmes. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, We seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snowfalls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever." Notice also the transient... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1919 - 632 頁
...mater. Cherish the good, the true, and the beautiful. Let duty be your guiding-star, not happiness. "Our pleasures are like poppies spread, We seize the flower, the bloom is shed; Or like the snow-flake on the river, A moment white, then gone forever." Happiness, as an object of... | |
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