 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 - Page 162edited by - 1901 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1783 - 366 pages
...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 - Literature - 1790 - 466 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...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 - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...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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