 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...  Poems - Side 266av William Cowper - 1810Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1913 - 264 sider
...in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Milton: Paradise Lost. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I...recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. Cowper. Home, kindred, friends, and country — these Are things with which we never part; From clime... | |
 | William Holman Hunt - 1914 - 388 sider
...the speed of its flight. The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift winged arrows of light. \Yhen I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem...recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. COWPER. THE mountains, the sea, and the middle distance on my canvas were now completed, and I was... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 334 sider
...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 behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. »5 When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 sider
...Though a friend I am never to see. 40 How fleet is a glance of the mind I Compared with the speed of its vain, and die, heart-stifled in her dell. XXIV A casement...and bunches of knot-grass, no And diamonded with But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, 5o Even here is a season... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 sider
...Though a friend I am never to see. < How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its s if I saw alike my work and self And all that I was...in God's hand. How strange now looks the life he m 1 recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast... | |
 | William A. Murrill - 1918 - 288 sider
...or two of each as a reminder. " 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." Cowper. These memories were not links in a chain, but separate incidents, mostly unrelated and all... | |
 | Indu Bhushan De Majumdar - 1918 - 398 sider
...American woman is full of vitality ; whatever she does, she does quickly. "Compared to the speed of her flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light." The Hindu idea of the graceful movement of a woman, namely, gajcndragdmini, that is walking slowly... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 sider
...Truth. Line 405. (See also DYER) How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still! WORDSWOR COWPER — Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. is Nature's first great title — mind.... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 sider
...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 behind, And the swift-winged...recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. • Locksley Hall But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 sider
...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,...recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Ev'n here is a season of... | |
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