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
 | Richard Green Parker - 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 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. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeh'ng mind, showing themselves amid stern virtues and masculine... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 690 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 Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 430 pages
...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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." The lesson of the quiet sail is lost on board the anxious steamer with her noisy paddles ; but any... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1070 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 Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 886 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 - 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 - 1848 - 242 pages
...which sweet nature sometimes with her simple sermons awakened in his soul ! " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 pages
...the lips will murmur " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell ill, IB a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...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... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 pages
...Byron, — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing That warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.' • Poetry is as the telescope, which discovers to us the beauties of the moon and stars ; politics... | |
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