 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...  Poetry of Byron - Page 94by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...AND TEMPEST AT NIGHT ON LAKE LEMAN (GENEVA). CLEAR, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake [spring. Earth's troubled waters for a purer This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...had penned me in their fold. ***** Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I've dwelt in is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night ; and all between Thy margin... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. Clear, placid Leman I thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXV. UNTO III. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...confess, to live in such a spot, And die there in old age, were no unlovely lot. BARToN. LAK$ LEMAN. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake J^arth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. t-XXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...some mistake. Hohhouse ran on before, nnd overtook them. Arrived at Clarens. Went to Chillón LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...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... | |
 | 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,...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep,... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...replenishing its source With life, as our free'd souls rejoin the universe. LAKE LEMAN AND THE ALPS.— Byron. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...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... | |
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