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... English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ... - Page 172by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 746 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1817 - 552 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." And now, " The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wond'rous... | |
| 1817 - 628 pages
...waters for a purer spring. . Tins quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring....margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingled, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and... | |
| 1817 - 608 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...e'er have been so moved. ' It is the hush of night, aad all between Thy margin and the mountains, dust, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly... | |
| 1816 - 696 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
| 1818 - 904 pages
...watets for a purer This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I spring. loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring .Sounds...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| 1818 - 896 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is ai a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stem delights should e'er have been so moved. '• It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. D a LXXXVI. It is tile hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved . f LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been sa moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet... | |
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