 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 ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend...  Poems - Page 265by William Cowper - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...and sleep, and carrying out into painful contrast my lodging and my home, I involuntarily exclaim, " My friends do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me." Who can wonder that in such a situation I should occasionally pay a visit to the theatre, or the concert,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...vallies and rocks never heard ; Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smil'd when a sabbath appear'd. Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appear'd. Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this...they now and then send A wish or a thought after me I Oh tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. How fleet is a glance of the mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1839 - 276 pages
...never heard ; ••.. • gj Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smil'd when a sabbath appear'd. Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this...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... | |
 | John Angell James - Christian life - 1859 - 196 pages
...has put into the lips of Alexander Selkirk, in his solitude on the 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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1841 - 362 pages
...valleys and rocks never heard, Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appear'd. Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to...thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...valleys and rocks never heard, Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd. Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to...they now and then send A wish or a thought after me 3 O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see ! How fleet is a glance of the mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1843 - 222 pages
...and rocks never heard; Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or snul'd when a sabbath appear'd. 5. Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this...thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, 1 hough a friend I am never to see. & How fleet is a glance of the mind ! •••;'.,• «T r,i... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...valleys and rocks never heard; Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd. Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to...they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh ! tell me, I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. How fleet is a glance of the... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...or recitation. f The first foot of such verses, is sometimes an iambus. / • READING OF POETRY. 187 *"Ye winds that have made me your sport, *Convey to...they now and then send A wish or a thought after me 1 Oh ! tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. " How fleet is a glance of the... | |
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