 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
 | 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...thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's _voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.' ' Poetry is as the telescope,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 466 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. y. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...voice in ait In midnight call to wonted prayer. A CALM NIGHT AT LAKE GENEVA. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...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, Mellow'd and mingling,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 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, 9. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 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. 9. I never tempted her with word too large j But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...Muezzin's1 voice in air In midnight call to wonted prayer. A CALM NIGHT AT LAKE GENEVA. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; onee I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 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...That I with stern delights should e'er have been so mored. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeling mind, showing themselves amid stern virtues and... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...DOKN, 1788; DIED, 1834. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft uie from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 314 pages
...again. These express it all: " Clear placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...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,... | |
 | Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 pages
...the following beautiful apostrophe: — " Clear, placid Leman ! 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 loved 'I orn ocean's roar, hut thy soft murmuring, Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
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