 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 Works of the English Poets: Prior - Page 44by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | 1797 - 454 pages
...gold for which other men die, Derry dtrwn, &C, A SONG. Js vain you tell your parting love You wish fair winds may waft him over: Alas! what winds can...I love ? Alas! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows and cold disdain ? Be gentle, and in pity chuse To wish the... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1802 - 504 pages
...you tell your parting lover You wi(h fair winds may waft him over i Alas ! what winds can happy prova That bear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main ^ Can equal thofe that I fultain From ffighted vows and cold difdain ? Be gentle, and in pity chufe To wi(h the wildeft tempefts... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...all dissembled. IN vain you tell your parting Lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over: Alas I what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from...I love ? Alas! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows and cold disdain ? Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 520 pages
...the gold for which other men die, Derry down, &c. A SONG. JN vain you tell your parting love You wish fair winds may waft him over : Alas ! what winds can happy prove That hear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, Be gentle,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pages
...reproach the faithless swain, Yet Damon still I seek in vain. I* rain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over* Alas! what winds can...love ? Alas '. what dangers on the main Can equal those which I sustain From slighted vows and cold disdain ? i Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 414 pages
...truth Who dying thus persists to love thee. \ [PRIoE.] JL N vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over : Alas ! what winds can...I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those which I sustain From slighted vows and cold disdain ? Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pages
...prophetess, my grief woukl cease. A SO\T,. IN vain yon tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may wnfi him over. Alas ! what winds can happy prove , That bear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dancers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain : Be gentle,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 364 pages
...gold for which other men die." Derry down, &c. A SONG. IN vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas ! what winds can...I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain? Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...gold for which other men die.' Derry down, &c. SONG. IN vain you tell your parting lover — You wish fair winds may waft him over : Alas ! what winds can...I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows and cold disdain ? Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...gold for which other men die.' Derry down, &c. SONG. 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 1 'Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows and cold disdain... | |
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