 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
 | 1850 - 498 pages
...! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warm me, with in »tilines, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring . This quiet sail is as a noiseless wins To bear me from destruction.'1 But hush ! the sliadows of evening fall ovtr the scene. " All heaven... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...Pilgrimage he tings as follows; " Clear placid Lemnn ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in is a thing Which warns me with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled water for a purer spring.'1 And again, when be tells of "sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep love," who... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...As rose the Muezzin's1 voice in ait In midnight call to wonted prayer. A CALM NIGHT AT LAKE GENEVA. 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. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...As rose tho 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...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...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 9. I never tempted her with word too large j But as... | |
 | 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...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved, 9. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...LXXXV. Clear, plaeid Leman ! thy eoatrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Whieh waras me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To wall me from distraetion ; onee I loved Torn oeean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | 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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