 | 1844 - 288 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 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. a. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 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. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeh'ng mind, showing themselves amid stern virtues and masculine... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 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 distraction ; once I lov'd Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reprov'd, That... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 430 pages
...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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." The lesson of the quiet sail is lost on board the anxious steamer with her noisy paddles ; but any... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reF roved, with stern delights should e'er have been so moved....between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingled, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd J ura, w hose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...a thing Which warns me, with ils silliness, lo 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 Torn ocean's roar, bul Ihy soft murmunnr; Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I wiih stern delights should... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 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 distraction ! Once I lov'd Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's voice reprov'd, That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...purer spring. Th» quiet sail is as a noiseless wiiig To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Tom Elliot Гш1 with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 14 LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pages
...a thing, Which warns me with i',s 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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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... 
