 Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are gone...  The Pope Anthology: 1701-1744 - Pagina 162editat de - 1901 - 312 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1783 - 366 pagini
...o'er the foaming billows She caft a wiftful look ; Her head was crown'd with willow* That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days. Why didft thou, vent'rous lover, Why didft thou truft the feas ? Ceafe, ceafe thou cruel ocean, And let... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1790 - 466 pagini
...Wide o'er the foaming billows She caft a wiihful look Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over And nine long tedious days; Why didft thou, venfrous lovert Why didft thou truft the feas? Ceafe, ceafe, thou cruel ocean And let a... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 pagini
...Wide o'er the foaming billows Shecaft a wiftful look; (1er head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days : Why didft thou, vem'rous lover, Why didft thou truft the leas ? Ceafe, ceafe, thou cruel ocean, And let... | |
 | 1797 - 332 pagini
...o'er the foaming billows fhe caft a wiftful look ; her head was crown'd with willows that trembled o'er the brook. " Twelve months are gone and over, " and nine long tedious days : " why didft thou vent'rous lover, * why didft thou truft the feas ? " Ccafe, ceafe, thou cruel ocean, " and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pagini
...o'er the foaming billews She caft a wiftful look : Her he.d was crown "d with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days, Why di<ift thou, venturous lover, Why didft thou tnift the feas ? Ceafe, ceafe, thou cruel Ocean, And let... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pagini
...o'er the foaming billows She caft a wiflful look : rler head wa» crown 'd with wil ows, That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days, ' iVhy died thou, venturous lover. Why didft thou truft thf feas ? ?eafe, ccafe, thou cruel Ocean,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pagini
...o'er the foaming bi'.iews She caft a wiftful look : Her head was crown'd with willowi, That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days, Why didft thou, venturous lover, Why didft thou truft the feas ? Ceafe, ceafe, thou cruel Ocean, And let... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pagini
...Her lessening boat unwilling rows to land : * Adien !' she cries, and wav'd her lily hand. BALLAD. * when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd : Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wishful look, Her head was crown'd with willows,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pagini
...truly love ; . . , ? 89 young I am, and yet unskilled • , , 174 BALLADS AND PASTORAL SONGS. J. WAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind,...lay deploring, All on a rock reclined: Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wishful look, Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pagini
...rows to land: Adieu !" she cries; and wav'd her lily hand. A BALLAD, FROM THE WHAT -D'YK -CALL -IT. 'TwAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind; A damsel lay deploring. All on a rock rcclin'd. Wide o'er the foaming billows She, cast a wistful look ; • Her head was crown'd with willows,... | |
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