Ye winds, that have made me your 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 thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I... Poems - Page 307by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
| James Thomson, Robert Heron - 1793 - 384 pages
...land I muft v\ft no more ! My friends ! do they now and then fend A thought or a wljh after me ? Oh ! tell me, I yet have a friend; Though a friend I am never to fee. Paflion here fpeaks in the ordinary abftract language of calm converfation : not in the abrupt, interjective... | |
| Mr. Addison - 1794 - 254 pages
...made me your fport, Convey to this defplate fiiore, Some cordial, endearing report, Of a land I can vifit no more. My Friends do they now and then fend...have a Friend, Though a Friend I am never to fee. How fleet is the glance of the mind! Compar'd with the fpeed of its flight; The Tempeft itfelf lags... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...made me your fport, Convey to this defolate fliore, Some cordial endearing report Of a land I fliall vifit no more. My friends, do they now and then fend...me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend 1 am never to fee. How fleet is a glance of the Mind ! Compar'd with the fpeed of its flight, The tempeft... | |
| 1788 - 772 pages
...land I ran vifit no morel My friends do they now and then fend A wilh or a thought after me .' O ttll me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to fee. How fleet is a glance of the mind, Compar'd with the fpeed of its flight, The tempcft itfelf lags,... | |
| William Cowper - 1800 - 372 pages
...that have made me your fport, Convey to this defolate fhore Some cordial endearing report Of A lar.d I fhall vifit no more. My friends, do they now and then fend A \vifh or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to fee. VI.... | |
| William Cowper - 1803 - 310 pages
...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. • VI. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest... | |
| William Cowper - 1805 - 362 pages
...that have made me your fport, Convey to this defolate fhore Some cordial endearing report Of a land, I fhall vifit no more. My friends, do they now and then...wifh or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a fiiend, Though a friend I am never to fee. VI. How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 262 pages
...Of a land I must visit no more. My Friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me f O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see." I have quoted this passage as an instance of three different styles of composition. The first... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...land, I. shall visit ao more,. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought -afeer'tue ? - O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am nevorto Stee. VI. How fleet is a glance of the mind! . Compared with the speed of iw flight, The tempest... | |
| Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...made me your luort, Convey to this defolate fliore, Some cordial endearing report Of a land I fliall vifit no more. My friends do they now and then fend A wilri or a thought after me.' O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am neģer to fee. How... | |
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