 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...parteth from you never, Shall enjoy a spring for ever. WILLIAM BROWNR 'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING. c roaring billows She cast a wistful look ; 126 Her head was crown'd with willows, That tremble o'er... | |
 | Evan Daniel - English language - 1881 - 420 pages
...Of such groups there are endless varieties. The best known are the following : Gay's Stanza. 'T was when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Elegiac Octosyllabics. A love-song I had somewhere read, An echo from a measured strain, . Beat time... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1881 - 798 pages
...odd lines is x ax 3-f- i for the even lines, a; ax 3. The rhymes are alternate, and the odd rhymes double. " 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, AH on a rock reclined ; Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...when the seas were roaring With hollow bluets of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock rccliuea. "Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crowned with willows. That trembled o'er the brook. • Twelve months are gone and over, Aod nine long... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1883 - 880 pages
..."Beggar's Opera "f and in its •wearisome continuation (where the verses are to the full as • " Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rook reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1883 - 156 pages
...complete Trimeter, form what has been called Gays Stanza ; eg : — " 'Twas when the seas were roar- ing With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deplor-ing All on a rock reclined." — Gay. 117. The other forms in which the simple regular measure occurs, are either varieties of those... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Somerville, In .Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore. JOHN GAY. 1688-1732. 'T was when the sea was roaring vVith hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. The What d' ye call 'L Act ii Sc. & So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er, The dreadful reckoning,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...therefore, enabled to adapt so happily some of the airs in the Beggar's Opera.' " — Notes to Spence. t " 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistjul look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 290 pages
...thee !" This composition appears to have been suggested by a well-known song of Gay's, beginning — " 'Twas when the seas were roaring with hollow blasts...wind, A damsel lay deploring, all on a rock reclined." Burns's opinion of the verses which form the text may be gathered from the following passage in one... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...brought out his fables, which are highly esteemed as specimens of their class, but they A BALLAD. "i'was She cast a wistful look: Her head was crowned with willows All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming... | |
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