 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...will 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,...a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wingTo waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 504 pages
...strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman. 7. This qujet sail is as a noiseless wing To wafi me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeling mind, 1tbowing themselves amid stern virtues and masculine... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 pages
...sight of its blue waters. — " Clear, placid Lemon ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Tom ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 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...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...follows o'ergrown CHILDE HAROLD.— Canto III. THE LAKE OF GENEVA BY STARLIGHT. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. * Be used to say that he could not help hating his benefactors, and he was always imagining that their... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...flow of poetic inspiration, as in that tranquil passage in Childe Harold : " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwelt in,...as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delight should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...flow of poetic inspiration, as in that tranquil passage in Childe Harold : " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwelt in,...as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delight should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, aud all between Thy margin and the... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. I It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 pages
...spring. His quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn Ucean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a...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,... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...with tear on tear. SHELLEY. • LAKE LEMAN. 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, Mellow'd and mingling,... | |
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