 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
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 էջ
...GENEVA. Lake Leman, in a Calm. *' Clear, placid Leman ! 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 Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 էջ
...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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between $ " Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 էջ
...Canto, he writes — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I dwelt in, ia a thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake...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,... | |
 | 1844 - 848 էջ
..." Clear, placid Leman I thy contrasted lake With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warus me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled...That I, with stern delights, should e'er have been ci moved." And speaking of the exquisite loveliness of Claren?, he sings — " He who hath loved not,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 էջ
...he so happily describes : " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With (he wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 էջ
...he so happily describes : " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...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... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 էջ
...drags its slow length along." Clear, placid Leman ! 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 distractions ; — once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's... | |
 | 1844 - 288 էջ
...are elegantly depicted : — • Clear placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide 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 Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 էջ
...like thine my life's last ray Will fade in loneliness, unwept away. KIRKE WHITE. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 էջ
...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... | |
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