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" 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... "
British Anthologies - Page 148
edited by - 1899
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Preface. A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song ...

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...
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Beispielsammlung zur Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften, Volume 5

Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 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...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 2

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 478 pages
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - 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...
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Medical Extracts: On the Nature of Health, with Practical ..., Volume 4

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...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - 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...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - 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,...
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The Myrtle and Vine; Or, Complete Vocal Library: Containing a ... Collection ...

Charles Henry Wilson - 1802 - 466 pages
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 7

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...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 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,...
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