 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...  Selected Poems of Lord Byron - Page 94de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 279 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...some mistake. Hohhouse ran on before, nnd overtook them. Arrived at Clarens. Went to Chillón LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I wilh stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...replenishing its source With life, as our free'd souls rejoin the universe. LAKE LEMAN AND THE ALPS.— Byron. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, hut thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should... | |
 | 1837 - 594 pages
...counterpart of the author's mind : ' Clear placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.' Mark the contrast : 'The sky is changed! and such a change! Oh night, And sturm, and darkness, ye are... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall he slower. Lxxxv. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's trouhled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...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 pages
...! 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... | |
 | John Roby - 1838 - 444 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 452 pages
...GENEVA. Lake Lcmant in a Calm. ** Clear, placid Leman 1 thy contrasted lake, \\iih the wild world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled witters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless u im,; 'Го waft me from destruction... | |
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