 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
 | 1866 - 522 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...their fame for ever. LORD BYRON 216 THE LOVER'S APPEAL IN vain you tell your parting lover you wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas ! what winds can...what 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... | |
 | Charles Reade - 1866 - 326 pages
...(so it seemed) the speaking song that begins thus — 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 her I love ? Alas, what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain From slighted love and cold... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 376 pages
...Remark'd, how ill we all dissembled. Matthew Prior. cm. 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... | |
 | 1872 - 184 pages
...gone forever. WALTER SAVAGE LAXDOII. IN VAIN YOU TELL. 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 ? — Can equal those that I sustain From slighted vows and cold disdain ? Be gentle, and in pity choose... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...live. Aphra Behn. LXIL LOVES PETITION. A PARTING LOVER. 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...at morn, nor groves at noon delight. POPE: Pastorals. 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 ? PRIOR. I charge thee loiter not, but haste to bless me : Think with what eager hopes, what rage,... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...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 pages
...at morn, nor groves at noon delight. POPE: Pastorals. 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 ? PRIOR. I charge thee loiter not, but haste to bless me : Think with what eager hopes, what rage,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...making love, When she begins to comprehend it. 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... | |
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