 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...  Poems - Pagina 11di Robert Burns - 1881Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1909 - 340 pagine
...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. I claim you still, for my own love's sake ! Delayed it may be for more lives yet, Through... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1794 - 300 pagine
...flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanifliing amid the ftorm.— Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-ftane, That dreary hour he mounts his beaft in ; And fie a night he taks... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1798 - 302 pagine
...flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanifhing amid the ftorm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches...Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-ftane, That dreary hour he mounts his beaft in ; And fic a night he tacks the road in, As ne'er... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 300 pagine
...flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evaniming amid the ftorm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches...maun ride ; That hour, .o' night's black arch the key-ftane, That dreary hour he mounts his bead in ; And fie a night he. tacks the road in, As ne'er... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 pagine
...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. — Nae man can tether 6 time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun7 ride; 1 Rair, roar. * Among, among. 3 Ladts, loads.... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 pagine
...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 : Nae man can tether time or tidej The hour approaches Tans maun ride. * • • ' • * » * Before him Doon pours all his floods;... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1806 - 416 pagine
...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...Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride. * * * * * * Before him Boon pours all his floods; The doubling storm roars thro' the... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 pagine
...borealis race, That flit ere you can 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 ; That hour, o' night's black arch the koy-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pagine
...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." * But the charm will be renewed; and real poetry will always delight, as it re-appears, in spite of... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 pagine
...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.* IT seems as if my whole life had been a life of misery, while the swift moments of happiness have scarce... | |
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