 Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, 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...  The poetical works of lord Byron. Illustr. ed - Page 400by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...Darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. a. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...even the lovers of pure description — • " Clear, placid Loman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ! Once I lov'd Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's voice reprov'd, That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...contrasted lake, With (he wild world 1 dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with ils silliness, lo forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring....from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, bul Ihy soft murmunnr; Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I wiih stern delights should... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1846 - 444 pages
...placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing, Which warns me with i',s stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1846 - 430 pages
...those better impulses, which sweet nature sometimes with her simple sermons awakened in his soul ! " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...world I dwelt in, is a thing, Which warns me with i',s stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring ! This quiet sail is as a noiseless... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - Switzerland - 1846 - 360 pages
...Byron says of the lake, — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing "Which warns me, with its stillness,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." How forcibly I felt the truth of these lines as I returned through the town of Lausanne, it is impossible... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Karth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXT. Clear, placid Leman 1 H , , , LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1847 - 382 pages
...impulses, which sweet Nature sometimes with her simple sermons awoke in his soul! , " Clear placid Lemun! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; onee I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1848 - 242 pages
...those better impulses, which sweet nature sometimes with her simple sermons awakened in his soul ! " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...sail is as a noiseless wing •» To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
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