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" 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... "
Selections from the writings of lord Byron, by a clergyman [W. Elwin]. - Page 21
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Last London Edition ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. eek abroad the love denied at home. Those hearts, dear IDA, stem delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy...
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The works of lord Byron, with notes by T. Moore [and others].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. ord ! — I charge thee stay, and answer here To one,...word — But as thou wast and art, on thee looks d LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd...
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A hand-book for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont ...

John Murray - 1842 - 482 pages
...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 destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's...
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Selections from the British Poets: From Beattie to Campbell

1843 - 368 pages
...nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard ! ******** It is the hush of night, and all between TJiy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd...mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capp'd heights appear Precipitously steep ; and, drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing ! Which warns me, with-it* stillnfiss,. tojorsake ' -' t'nT This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved i Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring I Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,' That I...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 pages
...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...That I, with stern delights, should e'er have been to moved." And speaking of the exquisite loveliness of Claren^ he sings— " He who hath loved not,...
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Lives of Celebrated American Indians

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...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 loved Lone ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with...
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Famous Men of Modern Times, Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...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 loved Lone ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...pure poetical source. An evening «cene by the side of the lake is thus exquisitely described >— ucture, and the latter its ' Corinthian uulunins.' • [Fi-ora the Spee dnsk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen— Save darkened Jura, whose capped heights...
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The Common School Speaker: A New Collection of Original and Selected Pieces ...

William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...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 distractions ; — once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's...
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