 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 522 Seiten
...pleasures, has had the fate Or snow that falls upon the river, A moment white — then melts for everOr like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.* The same fickleness which the French have displayed in a, manner so striking, with respect to their... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 Seiten
...pleasures, has had the fate Or snow that falls upon the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, ' That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.* The same fickleness which the French have displayed in a manner so striking, with respect to their... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 Seiten
...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...man can tether time or tide — The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 Seiten
...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 place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing'amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 Seiten
...growing better : The storm without might rair and rustle ; Tarn did na mind the storm a whistle «. The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane , (i) He had originally written this very beautifully in prose in a Letter to GROSE, the Antiquary.... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 Seiten
...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...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." Page 18. " The fam'd Sir Walter sings." Upon the poetical productions of the " Author of Waverley"... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 Seiten
...Or like the snow-falls hi the river, A moment white, — then melts for ever ; Or like the horealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." BURNS. " Yet wandering, I found on my ruinous walk, By the dial-stone, aged and green, One rose of... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...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...can tether time or tide — • The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 Seiten
...like the snow-falls in the river, ••• 1, • / A moment white — then melts for ever ; i " Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...man can tether time or tide — The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; • A That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1824 - 376 Seiten
...moment white, then lost for ever ; Or like the rainbow's fleeting form, Evanishing amid the storm ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place. No man can tether time or tide : The hour approaches, —-we must ride." And so we did. — We walked... | |
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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... 
