 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 227by William Cowper - 1808Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Catherine Grace Frances Gore - 1844 - 944 pages
...in spite of principle or philosophy, in the pathetic ejaculation of Selkirk in his desolate island, My friends, — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me t — for whatever might be their thoughts and wishes, it was not often they took an' epistolary shape... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...and rocks never heard ; Never sighed at the sound of the knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared. 5. Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to...they now and then send A wish or a thought after me 7 O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend'I am never to see. 6. How fleet is a glance of the... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...rocks, never heard ; Ne'er sigh'd — at the sound of a knell, Or srnil'd, 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 Î О 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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