 Ye winds, that have made me your 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, Though a friend I...  Poems - Page 265by William Cowper - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me 1 O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. • • .•••' How fleet is a glance of the mind! And the swift-wing'd arrows of light. When... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...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, Though a friend I am never to see. 6. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself... | |
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1839 - 990 pages
...the dinnerparty to which they were engaged. CHAPTER III. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I 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 - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | John Angell James - Christian life - 1859 - 196 pages
...island of Juan Fernandez : — " My friends, do they now and then send, A wish or a thought after me 1 O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to sec. " How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its Sight, The tempest itself... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...stroke, 'tis o'er. The Dispensary, Canto III. 11. 885-7. My friends, — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet 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... | |
 | William Harris Elson - Reading (Elementary) - 1923 - 100 pages
...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, Though a friend I am never to see. "But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair; Even here is a season... | |
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