 | William Scoresby - Arctic regions - 1851 - 250 pages
...extracts, are, in the original, thus introduced: — " How swift is a glimpse of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags hehind, And the swift- winged arrows of light ! " " During forty years occupation at sea, (the document then proceeds... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 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 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 - 1854 - 398 pages
...wish or a thought after me? 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...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-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land, Compar'd with the speecl of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, In a moment 1 seem to be there;... | |
 | 1856 - 418 pages
...first, th' unwary heart may gain But these, these only, can the heart retain. THOUGHT. How fleet ¡sa glance of the mind Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself la« behind, And the swift-winged arrowa of light. c&mma 1ШО <r ¿ешомь cwwa&t n a&t <r e* <r... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...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 laud, In a moment I seem to be there ; But, alas ! recollection, at hand, Soon hurries me back to despair.... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 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 himself lags behind And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a... | |
 | Arnold James Cooley - Hospitals - 1865 - 264 pages
...is a glance of the mind ! ' Compared to the speed of its flight, ' The tempest itself lags behind, ' And the swift-winged arrows of light. ' When I think of my own native place, ' In a moment I seem to be there' Ah ! you did ? did you ! So do I. So on that point there is... | |
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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. 
