 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...  The poetical works of lord Byron. Illustr. ed - Էջ 400George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 էջ
...mistake. Hobhoa«e ran on brforc, and •vertaos, them. Armad at Claren«. Went to Chillón LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to fursake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft... | |
 | 1837 - 580 էջ
...! thy contrasted lake, With me wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stilluess to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring...as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.' Mark the contrast : ' The sky is changed ! and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye... | |
 | Hezekiah Hartley Wright - 1838 - 414 էջ
...thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. The quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." " Now where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between," &c. • Before leaving Geneva, I will advert... | |
 | John Roby - 1838 - 444 էջ
...feeling, might have rapt the poet to a nobler aim, and consecrated his muse to higher purposes : — " Clear placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." But I am aware how very unfashionable it is to quote, and betray the sentimentals. Like wearing castoff... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 էջ
...placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with ils stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a...as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction." Mark the contrast : " The sky is changed ! and such a change ! Oh night, And storm and darkness, ye... | |
 | Hezekiah Hartley Wright - 1838 - 396 էջ
...themes for the rapt poet's lyre. u Clear, placid Lemau, thy contrasted lake With tin1 wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. The quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once, I loved Tom Ocean's roar... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 էջ
...he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings. LAKE OF GENEVA.— BYRON. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Tom ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 էջ
...some mistake. Hobhonse ran on before, and overtook them. Arrived at Cláreos. Went to Chillón LXXXV. to all in childhood's very name? Ah ! sure some stronger...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... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 էջ
...Nay, son •*— I think you speak in charity As one who blames through love. — (Knowles's Wife.) Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the...world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stilness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 էջ
...it comcth, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV. t to desperation driven, Because nol altogether of...clay As rots into the souls of those whom I survey. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
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