 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 Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 pages
...those better impulses, which sweet nature sometimes with her simple sermons awakened in his soul ! " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 pages
...the lips will murmur " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell ill, IB a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...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... | |
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848 - 350 pages
...favourite of mine ; but this was a pretty thought, and I often apply it to such a scene as this. ' It warns me, with its stillness, to forsake earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.' And what do you say, my dear?" slackening his pace and appealing to Sara. " What is your taste in scenery... | |
 | 1799 - 230 pages
...as the image of that book, which, contrasted " With the world we dwell in, is a thing, That warms us with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring ! "The exiles formed themselves into a church, and William Whittingham was their pastor. He was born... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 pages
...Byron, — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing That warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled...thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's _voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.' ' Poetry is as the telescope,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1850 - 610 pages
...Deerslayer adjusted his hard pillow, stretched his form in the bottom of the canoe, and slept. CHAPTER VE. " Clear, placid Leman ! Thy contrasted lake With the...world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stiliness, to forsake Karth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless... | |
 | 1850 - 498 pages
...! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warm me, with in »tilines, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring . This quiet sail is as a noiseless wins To bear me from destruction.'1 But hush ! the sliadows of evening fall ovtr the scene. " All heaven... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...Pilgrimage he tings as follows; " Clear placid Lemnn ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in is a thing Which warns me with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled water for a purer spring.'1 And again, when be tells of "sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep love," who... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...As rose tho Muezzin's1 voice in air In midnight call to wonted prayer. A CALM NIGHT AT LAKE GENEVA. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the...is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; onee I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...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... | |
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