 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...  Journal of the Society of Arts - Page 241903Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing ! Which warns me, with-it* stillnfiss,. tojorsake ' -' t'nT This quiet sail is as a 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,'... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 pages
...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...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. Once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's voice reproved That... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...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 forsake...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...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 forsake...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... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...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, to forsake...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 pages
...elegantly depicted : — • Clear placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I dwell in, is 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... | |
 | 1844 - 848 pages
..." 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...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. Once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's voice reproved That... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...WHITE. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. CLEAR, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...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 pages
...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 from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved That... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...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 from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved That... | |
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