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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 354 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. t-XXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
 | William Brown Galloway - 1837 - 570 pages
...and not in vain. « * * » • Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I live in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness,...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless as we grow when feeling most... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 478 pages
...ran on before, nnd overtook them. Arrived at Clarens. Went to Chillón LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I wilh stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to fursake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet...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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...life, as our free'd souls rejoin the universe. LAKE LEMAN AND THE ALPS.— Byron. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, hut thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should... | |
 | 1837 - 594 pages
...counterpart of the author's mind : ' Clear placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.' Mark the contrast : 'The sky is changed! and such a change! Oh night, And sturm, and darkness, ye are... | |
 | Hezekiah Hartley Wright - 1838 - 414 pages
...thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. The quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." " Now where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between," &c. • Before leaving Geneva, I will advert... | |
 | John Roby - 1838 - 444 pages
...the poet to a nobler aim, and consecrated his muse to higher purposes : — " Clear placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwelt in,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." But I am aware how very unfashionable it is to quote, and betray the sentimentals. Like wearing castoff... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...air repay, Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings. LAKE OF GENEVA.— BYRON. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Tom ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...ran on before, and overtook them. Arrived at Cláreos. Went to Chillón LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! very name? Ah ! sure some stronger impulse vibrates...the love denied at home. Those hearts, dear IDA, stem delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy... | |
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