 | Charles Henry Wilson - English ballads and songs - 1803 - 228 pages
...cannons roar, yet safe from harm* William shall to his dear return :. 8 3 Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from...boatswain gave the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosom spread; No longer must she stay aboard : They kiss'd; she sigh'd; he hung his head. Herless'ning... | |
 | Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 pages
...cannons roar, yet safe from harms, William shall to his dear return. LOYB turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest pre.cious tears should drop from Susan's eye. The The boatswain gave the dreadful word. The sail»4Reir swelling bosom spread; No longer must she stay... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 322 pages
...cannons roar, yet, free from harms, William shall to his dear return. Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from...their swelling bosoms spread ; No longer must she stay on board ; They kiss'd — she sigh'd — he hung his head. Her less'ning boat, unwilling, rows to... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 300 pages
...cannons roar, yet safe from harms William shall to his dear return ; Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from...boatswain gave the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosom spread ; qUUELMLS SUSANNA VALEDICENS. 53 Suave meum, et vita Susanna 0 ! charter ipsa, Sunt mea,... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 228 pages
...should drop from Susan's eye. VIII. The boatswain gave the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosom spread ; No longer must she stay aboard : They kiss'd ; she sigh'd ; he hung his head. Her less'ning boat unwilling rows to land : Adieu ! she cries ; and wav'd her lily-hand. Sive Indus gemmarum,... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - English poetry - 1808 - 398 pages
...should drop from Susan's eye. VIII. The boatswain gave the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosom spread ; No longer must she stay aboard : They kiss'd ; she sigh'd ; he hung his head. Her less'ning boat unwilling rows to land : Adieu ! she cries ; and wav'd her lily -hand. VI. Sive Indus... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...cannons roar, yet, safe from harms, William shall to his dear return : Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from...boatswain gave the dreadful word; The sails their swelling bosom spread; No longer must she stay aboard : They kiss'd ; she sigh'd ; he hung his head : Her lessening... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...William shall to his dear return. Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious teais should drop from Susan's eye." The boatswain gave the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosom spread ; No longer must she stay aboard : They kiss'd, she sigh'd, be hung his head. Her lessening... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...thy arms, Let not my pretty Susan mourn ; Tho' cannons roar, yet free from harms The boatswain gives the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosoms spread ; No longer must she stay on board, They kiss'd ; she sigh'd ; he hung his head : Her less'ning boat unwilling rows to land;... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...cannons roar, yet free from harms William thall to his dear return : Love turns aside the halls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from Susan's eye. The fourth line is too positive and presumptuous; and, if Love be put for Cupid, or merely a personification... | |
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Though battle call me from thy arms Let not my pretty Susan mourn; Though cannons roar, yet safe from harms William shall to his Dear return. Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from Susan's eye. 
