With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail 'is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring... Switzerland and Savoy - Page 115by David Bogue - 1852 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I, with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." And now, " The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wond'rous... | |
| 1817 - 628 pages
...waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved. That I with stern delights...clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring. Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingled, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| 1817 - 608 pages
...waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights...e'er have been so moved. ' It is the hush of night, aad all between Thy margin and the mountains, dust, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...j^ othOT) deep and xlow, exhausting thought, " It is the blush of night and all between Thy marpin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, ,..*. „ ...,.., „ Save darkwTd Jura, whose capt heights appear And'hiving" 'w"isciSm'witiiTaclisludTou's'yea^ Precipitously... | |
| Religion - 1818 - 904 pages
...from distraction; once I spring. loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring .Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights...clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living... | |
| 1818 - 896 pages
...Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stem delights should e'er have been so moved. '• It is...clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing •ear, There breathes a... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. D a LXXXVI. It is tile hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
| De Clifford (fict.name.) - 1820 - 582 pages
....""•. . " » . I \ • :'.u. -.. i'r - jl "» I'- •:.-. *,•' .!•• • ii:': •! CHAPTER VI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin...mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously sleep; and drawing near There breathes a living fragrance from the... | |
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