 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...  Gay's Beggar's Opera: Its Content, History & Influence - Page 322by William Eben Schultz, Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund, Elizabethan Club (Yale University) - 1923 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English drama - 1788 - 398 pages
...; A darafd lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er the foaming Inflows She caft a wiftful look ; Her head was- crown'd with willows That tremble o'er the brook. II. "Twelve months are gone and over, And nine lo«g tedious days. Why didft thou, vent'rous lover,... | |
 | English drama - 1792 - 394 pages
...; A damfel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er the foaming- billows She caft a wiftful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That tremble o'er the brook. II. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days. Why didft thou, vent'rous lover, Why... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...roaring With hollow blasts of wind; A damsel lay deploring. All on a rock reeliu'd. 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 mouths arc gone and orer, And nine long tedious days. Why didst thou,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...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 - English language - 1812 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1813 - 342 pages
...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... | |
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