 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 страници
...with zeal and alacrity. The lines of Cowper are simple ones, but true and significant: — "How swift 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."8 And what Shakespeare says of the poet is true of every craft of the... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 страници
...yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. 40 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 1 think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas!... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 страници
...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 to be there; But alas!... | |
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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? 
