 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 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... | |
 | Boyd Montgomerie M. Ranking - 1880 - 214 pages
...SHIPWRECK. IN vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas, what winda 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 ? Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...PRIOR. 1664 — 1721. IN VAIN YOU TELL YOUR PARTING LOVER. 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 that I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain From slighted vows and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...mend it !) That I shall be past making love, 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... | |
 | 1886 - 548 pages
...to another now. THOMAS BBYDGSON. IN VAIN YOU TELL. IN vain you tell your parting lover You wish lair winds may waft him over : Alas ! what winds can happy...I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain Prom slighted vows and cold disdain ? Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 pages
...Remark'd how ill we all dissembled. Matthew Prior . CV. 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... | |
 | Charles Reade - 1891 - 424 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 pages
...THOMAS BRYDOSON. him IN VAIN YOU TELL. IN vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft over : Alas ! what winds can happy prove That bear...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...mend it !) That l shall be past making love, 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 496 pages
...past making love When she begins to comprehend it. SONG IN VAIN you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over; — Alas! what winds...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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