 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
 | John Howell - 1837 - 154 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. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 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. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...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 never to see. • • .•••' How fleet is a glance of the mind! And the swift-wing'd arrows of light. When... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 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. 6. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 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. The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native... | |
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1839 - 990 pages
...the dinnerparty to which they were engaged. CHAPTER III. 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 ! COWPER. AGNES and her two foreign companions, Madame Leroux, and Mademoiselle Athenai's, reached... | |
 | John Angell James - 1859 - 196 pages
...island of Juan Fernandez : — " 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 never to sec. " How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its Sight, The tempest itself... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1917 - 360 pages
...land I shall visit no more: My friends, do they now and then 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 the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 pages
...stroke, 'tis o'er. The Dispensary, Canto III. 11. 885-7. 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. But it is in The Castaway, Cowper's last great original poem, that the highest expression of his... | |
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