 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 ... - Pàgina 338per William Cowper - 1860 - 491 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pàgines
...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...me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend 1 am never to see. How fleet is the glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 pàgines
...Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then aeiktl 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 pàgines
...A wis,h or a thought after me 1 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 ! Compared with...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 to be there ;... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pàgines
...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 - 1837 - 534 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Howell - 1837 - 154 pàgines
...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-wing'd arrows... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pàgines
...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...• .•••' How fleet is a glance of the mind! And the swift-wing'd arrows of light. When 1 think of my own native lar ' Compar'tl with the speed... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 360 pàgines
...that no two rays of light are strictly consonant either in form or in operation. ' How swift is the glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.' It is, nevertheless, certain, that not one of the satellites, planets,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pàgines
...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. 6. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags... | |
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