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... Swift: The Mystery of His Life and Love - Página 187por James Hay - 1891 - 361 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 páginas
...reclin'd. Wide 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,... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - 1802 - 466 páginas
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| British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,...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. Twelve months are gone... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 páginas
...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,... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 414 páginas
...Marg'ret's name, And thrice he wept full sore ; Then laid his cheek to the cold earth, [ByGay.«] \ , 1 WAS 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 páginas
...had rlone, What lliou, brave and happy Vcrnou. Hast atchiev'd with six .ilonft In that of six, TWS.S when the seas were roaring, With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. la the anapestick, When terrible tempests assail ns, Anil mountainous nil lows affright,... | |
| Alexander Adam - 1812 - 334 páginas
...neither added nor confounded, They neither wanted nor abounded. 3. In verjet of it* syllables. Twos when the seas were roaring, With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on % rock reclin'd. Gay. 4. In verset of teven syllables* As Palemon, unsuspecting, Prais'd the sly musician's... | |
| 1813 - 342 páginas
...Handel's original music. Recitative. -T5-*35 3E=^ Largo andante. 'Twas wben the seas were roaring, Witli hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reaming billows She clin'd, Wide o'er the foaming billows cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...EXTRACTS, Then breathing a groan o'er his clay, She huog on his tomb-stone, and died. § Q. Song. GAY. 'TwAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, AH on a rock rcclin'd. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd... | |
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