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
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 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...That I with stern delights should e'er have been so mored. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeling mind, showing themselves amid stern virtues and... | |
| 1851 - 496 էջ
...DOKN, 1788; DIED, 1834. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft uie from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 էջ
...LXXXV. Clear, plaeid Leman ! thy eoatrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Whieh waras me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To wall me from distraetion ; onee I loved Torn oeean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if... | |
| Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 314 էջ
...again. These express it all: " Clear placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...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, Mellowed... | |
| Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 էջ
...the following beautiful apostrophe: — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved 'I orn ocean's roar, hut thy soft murmuring, Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1852 - 512 էջ
...Calm. '• Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing \Vhich warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...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... | |
| David Bogue - 1852 - 416 էջ
...Neuchatel diligence, 31 Rue des Etuves. " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring; To waft me from distraction : once I loved This quiet sail IS as a noiseless wing Torn ocean's roar,... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 էջ
...power." BARRY CORNWALL. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...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, • Mellowed... | |
| Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 էջ
...Heaven, yet leave vain man below. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I've dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 16* It is the hush of night ; and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 էջ
...(1F.NKVA. Clear, placid I.cman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world 1 dwelt in, is a thing AVhich warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...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... | |
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