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 I... The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume - Page 33by George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 776 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1817 - 572 pages
...tranquil and of a troubled scene. " Clear, placid Leman, thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...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
...thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. . Tins quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...stern delights should e'er have been so moved. ' It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 620 pages
...GENEVA. Lake Leman, in a Calm. "Clear, placid Tainan ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild worlil I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...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... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...sxquisits passage is his description of Leman. ' Clear, placid Lcman, thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...stern delights should 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,... | |
 | 1816 - 696 pages
...Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns tne, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters...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 - 1817 - 492 pages
...passage in the poem. LXXXV. " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved the Ha me Of Heaven again assail'd, if Heaven the while On man and man's research could deign to do... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is ai a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stem delights should e'er have been so moved. '• It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin... | |
 | 1818 - 904 pages
...watets for a purer This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I spring. loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring .Sounds...stern delights should e'er have been so moved. « It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, 1o forsuke Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet...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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower, LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...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, Mellow'd... | |
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