 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
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...ON THE ALPS. FROM BTRON. 1. CLEAR, placid Leman 1 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 ^distractions; once I lovM Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...was a true and beautiful flow of poetic inspiration, as in that tranquil passage in Childe Harold : "Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake With the...thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Karth's tronbled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...As rose the 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...world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stilluess, to forsake Earth's trouhled waters for a purer spring. This quict sail is as a noiseless... | |
 | Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857 - 356 pages
...of the lake 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,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." Then his spirited picture of a " storm : " " Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between Heights,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 718 pages
...long and lovingly upon our woody promontory, onr i-yrio among the spruces of Cape Breton. ' CI.KAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, • With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, wilh its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spriog.' But the mail-coach must... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...passages of the " Childe Harold " are those in which nature had her will with this wayward child : — " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, ia a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.... | |
 | Interesting tales - 1858 - 220 pages
...earth, the waters, and the sky! ,Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...spring: This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To hear me from destruction.' But hush', the shadows of evening fall over the scene. ' All' heaven and... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - 1858 - 314 pages
...verse in our modern literature. ^ CHAPTER II. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me with its...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. CHILDE HAKOLD, SHORTLY after I went to Geneva. In the largest country-house (Plangeau) near that city... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...came, it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. Soo This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar,... | |
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