'T was when the sea was roaring

With hollow blasts of wind,

A damsel lay deploring,

All on a rock reclin'd.

John Gay (1688-1732): The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8.

A damsel with a dulcimer

In a vision once I saw:

It was an Abyssinian maid,

And on her dulcimer she played,

Singing of Mount Abora.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Kubla Khan.