...with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear." 10. "Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower — its bloom is shed." 11. "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep...

...come again that night. PLEASURES. Bur 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 lost forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like...

...glorious, 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 forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's...

...lines — " King's may be blest, but Tain was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious." " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit...

...baubles on the ocean of life, or as one, who by experience, had realized the emptiness of earth, said: like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed, Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borcalis race, That flit...

...different strain, giving one of the happiest imaginative illustrations in the range of poetry;— '' But 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 forever!" Tarn's midnight ride, and his approach...

...crowds of more deserving 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 far ever : Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place, Or like the rainbow's...

...is of all most bountiful and kind, That fades not straight, but leaves a living joy behind. CAMPION. Pleasures are like poppies spread, YOu seize the flower,...snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts forever; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. Ah, how empty, ah, how fleeting,...

...highest gratification. Many devote their lives to pleasure as the chief end of their existence. JBut 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 forever/ Others worship wealth as the chief source of .happiness....

...streams their channels deeper wear.' Or, take again this cluster of slmilies in ' Tarn o' Shanter. ' But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-flake in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever. Or, like the borealia race, That flit...