 In vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain?  The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior - עמוד 33מאת Matthew Prior - 1907 - 150 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1856 - 754 דפים
...since, how sad a race ! Senseless, violent, and base ! MATTHEW PRIOR. Born 1664. -J-172I. A Song. In vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds...bear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the'main Can equal those that I sustain From slighted vows, and cold distain ? Be gentle, and in pity... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 דפים
...blessings own : Thy darling Loves shall guide the hours, And all the day be all thine own. SONG. In vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds...sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain? Be geutle, and in pity choose To wish the wildest tempests loose: That, thrown again upon the coast, Where... | |
 | 1866 - 522 דפים
...crown'd, Fair Prophetess ! my grief would cease. LOVE SLIGHTED. IN vain you tell your parting Lover, Yoa wish fair winds may waft him over: Alas ! what winds...Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the wildest tempest loose.: That, thrown again upon the coast Where first my shipwreck'd heart was lost, I may... | |
 | Charles Reade - 1866 - 326 דפים
...the sweet singer poured out from her heart (so it seemed) the speaking song that begins thus — In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds...Alas, what winds can happy prove That bear me far from her I love ? Alas, what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain From slighted love and cold... | |
 | Charles Reade - 1866 - 260 דפים
...upon the shelf as the sweet singer poured out from her heart (so it seemed) the speaking song:— " In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas t what winds can happy prove That bear me far from her I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can... | |
 | 1872 - 188 דפים
...sever, And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone forever. WALTER SAVAGE LAXDOR. IN VAIN YOU TELL. IN vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds...can happy prove That bear me far from what I love ? — Can equal those that I sustain From slighted vows and cold disdain ? Be gentle, and in pity choose... | |
 | Charles Reade - 1873 - 144 דפים
...parting 1 You wish fair winds may waft Alas ! what winds can happy prov< That bear me far from her I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain From slighted love and cold disdain." Griffith beat time with his hand a while, and his own face softened and beautified... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 דפים
...PRIOR. If love, alas ! be pain, the pain I bear No thought can figure, and no tongue declare. PRIOR. In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. PRIOR. In her forehead's fair half-round Love sits in open triumph crown'd ; He in the dimple of her... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 דפים
...happiest far, whose humble mind Is unto Providence resigned. — Anon. Corchorus Impatient of absence. Alas, what winds can happy prove That bear me far from what I love ? — Prior. Coreopsis Always cheerful. Flowers sweet and gay, and delicate like you, Emblems of innocence... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 דפים
...PRIOR. If love, alas ! be pain, the pain I bear No thought can figure, and no tongue declare. PRIOR. In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. PRIOR. In her forehead's fair half-round Love sits in open triumph crown'd ; He in the dimple of her... | |
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