 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 hurries...  Poems - Strana 308podľa William Cowper - 1788Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - Počet stránok 1920
...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 hurries me back to despair. • Locksley Hall... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - Počet stránok 524
...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, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1924 - Počet stránok 296
...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 hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - Počet stránok 412
...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 he there ; But, alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl... | |
 | 1926 - Počet stránok 780
...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 hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Počet stránok 1172
...in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms. Than reign in this horrible place. (1. 1—8) 24 nds hold against chaos. that is a place of first seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. (1. 45-48) FiP; FPL;... | |
 | Louis Fairchild - 2002 - Počet stránok 364
...friends made by years of association. "Father was suffering such pangs of remorse at this time."41 When I think of my own native land. In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. 42 Loneliness and... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - Počet stránok 778
...the 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, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea- fowl... | |
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