 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 Murray (Firm) - 1852 - 514 pages
...Calm. '• Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing \Vhich warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...power." BARRY CORNWALL. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. CLEAR, placid Leman ! 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, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, • Mellowed and... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...Heaven, yet leave vain man below. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I've dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 16* It is the hush of night ; and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...(1F.NKVA. Clear, placid I.cman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world 1 dwelt in, is a thing AVhich warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1022 pages
...comey— <ho power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXT. Clear, placid Leman '. ctivity, at length comes forth the grand specific, the never-failing nostrum of all state Tom ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...THUNDER-STORM ON THE ALPS. 1. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy "'"contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness,...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distractions ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 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. LXXXV1. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear Mellow'd... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 552 pages
...canoe, and slept. CHAPTER VII. "Clear, placid Leman ! Thy contrasted lake With the wild world I.dwslt in, Is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved* BIRCX. DAY had fairly dawned, before the young man, whom we have left in the situationjlescribed in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 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,...ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet ae if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXT1.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. His 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, Mellow'd and mingling,... | |
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