 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1916 - 416 страници
...me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. How fleet is a glance of Ihe 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... | |
 | William A. Murrill - 1918 - 288 страници
...memories came flooding over him and he only had time to jot down a word or two of each as a reminder. " How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with...its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light." Cowper. These memories were not links in a chain, but separate incidents,... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 страници
...send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. m Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all...mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth, Or the Bellma swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 страници
...Retirement. 16 His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. COWPER — Truth. Line 405. (See also DYER) oth with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which...canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings compos swift-winged arrows of light. COWPER — Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. is Nature's... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 страници
...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! Compared with the...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... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 страници
...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 to be there ; But alas... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1924 - 296 страници
...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 ! Compared with...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 страници
...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 ! Compared with...lags behind, And the swift- winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to he there ; But, alas ! recollection at hand... | |
 | 1925 - 304 страници
..." is really only a sphere where the motions of the mind are so rapid that we cannot follow them. " How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with...lags behind And the swift winged arrows of light." Let me try and illustrate what I mean. I have a country cousin who comes up to London. I take him round... | |
 | 1926 - 780 страници
...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 ! Compared with...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... | |
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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? 
