 How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon...  The Poems of William Cowper ... - Страница 338написао/ла William Cowper - 1860 - 491 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1839 - 990 страница
...injunction of her brother to go and dress for the dinnerparty to which they were engaged. CHAPTER III. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a...yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see ! COWPER. AGNES and her two foreign companions, Madame Leroux, and Mademoiselle Athenai's, reached... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 304 страница
...sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a...have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 страница
...sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a...have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 страница
...sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a...am never to see ! How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift- winged arrows... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 страница
...land I shall visit no more. My friends — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me 3 O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am...with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags bebind. And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 страница
...sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a...have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. VI. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar d with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 362 страница
...sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 страница
...land I shall visit no more ! My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh ! tell me, I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am...its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But,... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 страница
...land I shall visit no more ! My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me 1 Oh ! tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. " How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift- wing'd arrows... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 страница
...feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. The Dispensary, Canto III, 11. 225-7. 4 To the Rev. Mr. Newton. My friends, — do they now and then send A wish or...have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. But it is in The Castaway, Cowper's last great original poem, that the highest expression of his despair... | |
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