 | 1909 - 340 sider
...snowfall 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. ROBERT BURNS. I claim you still, for my own love's sake ! Delayed it may be for more lives yet, Through... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1797 - 304 sider
...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...Tarn 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 tacks the road in, As ne'er... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1798 - 308 sider
...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...Tarn 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 tacks the road in, As ne'er... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 sider
...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...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 sider
...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...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 sider
...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...time or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride. * * * * * * Before him Boon pours all his floods; The doubling storm roars thro' the woods; - . The... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 sider
...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." * But the charm will be renewed; and real poetry will always delight, as it re-appears, in spite of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 sider
...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.* 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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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... 
