 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see ! T How fleet is the 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 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 land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | John Howell - 1837 - 154 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-wing'd arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seern... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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 land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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 land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1839 - 276 pages
...send A wish or a thought after me ? 0 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 Sight, The tempest itself lags behind, Aad^the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...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 land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...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 of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...wish, or a thought after me Î О 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 ariows 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. 
