 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...  Tales for the Marines ... - Page 113by Henry Augustus Wise - 1857 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bradford Frazee - English language - 1845 - 192 pages
...when the seas were roaring — A damsel lay deploring. The last two couplets mixed alternately, thus : 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Gray. xa X 4. His aspect and his air imprest A troubled memory on my breast, And long upon my startled... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1845 - 242 pages
...dernan ; For dearer than the world to me Is my love, Julia Vernon ! " I FROM THE WHAT-D'YE-CALL-IT. 'TWAS when the seas were roaring, with hollow blasts...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 429 pages
...kind. Upon a mountain, Beneath a fountain. Three Iambuses, with hypermeter of the same kind. 'T was when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. four Iambuses. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage. Five laminaes, or the... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845
...litera; interiores. Atque hsec domestica. Cicero to Appius. WEDNESDAY, September 22. Into Latin Elegiacs. Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er th'e foaming billows • She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows,... | |
 | American literature - 1845 - 600 pages
...we all dissembled. MATTHEW PRIOB TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING. TWA* wlien the seas were roaring i With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined : Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistfu! look; Her head was crowned with willows, That trembled... | |
 | Alexander Adam - English language - 1846 - 324 pages
...They neither added nor confounded, They neither wanted nor abounded. 3. In verses of six syllables. 'Twas when the seas were roaring, With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay dejploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Gay. N 4. In verses of seven syllables. As Palemon, unsuspecting,... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1849
...line. In every first and third verse there is a supernumerary syllable. This makes the rhyme double. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...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 M with willows, 4. Second... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1849 - 100 pages
...line. In every first and third verse there is a supernumerary syllable. This makes the rhyme double. Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...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, 4. Second... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1850
...line. In every first and third verse there is a supernumerary syllable. This makes the rhyme double. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...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... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler, Karl Ernst A. Sachs - 1850
...cf. 31 etc., P. 256. e) Gay's Stanza hat 3füssige Jambics mit altern, rhyme: (the odd lines double) 'Twas when the seas were roaring with hollow blasts...wind, a Damsel lay deploring all on a rock reclined. so bei den neueren Lyrikern sehr gewöhnlich nach Gay's Vorbilde. Aehnliche kurze Strophen von 4 —... | |
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