 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...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 lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native laud, In a moment I seem... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...send A wish or a thought after me ? O, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a triend 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-winged arrovys of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...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 lags behind, And the swift winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...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 lags behind, And the swift winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...A wish or a thought afler me ? O tell me I yt-t 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 lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light . "When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 184 pages
...wish or a thought after mo ? O tell me I: yet have a friend, Though a friend I 6m never to tea* VI. 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 o£ light. When I think of ray own native land, In a moment I... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 264 pages
...wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet 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 behind, And the swift- winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...me ? _ v O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. HOJV fleet is a glance1 of the mind ! Compar'd with the 'speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-wing'd arrtfws of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...wislO 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 lags behind', And the swift-winged arrows of lighr. When 1 think of my own native land', In a moment I seem... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...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 lags behind, And the swift-wing'd arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
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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 am never to see. 
