 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...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 225by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...tranquil and of a troubled scene. " Clear, placid Leman, thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I, with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." And now, " The sky is changed! — and such a change!... | |
 | 1817 - 628 pages
...nothing finer of the kind. ' Clear, placid Lemun ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...forsake Earth's troubled 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,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...GENEVA. Lake Leman, in a Calm. "Clear, placid Tainan ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild worlil I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...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... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...sxquisits passage is his description of Leman. ' Clear, placid Lcman, thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. ' It is the hush of night, aad all between Thy margin... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns tne, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...passage in the poem. LXXXV. " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved the Ha me Of Heaven again assail'd, if Heaven the while On man and man's research could deign to do... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...revolutionary politics. " Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, ¡sa thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...troubled 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... | |
 | Religion - 1818 - 904 pages
...the thorny mazes of revolutionary politics. " Clear, placid Lemau! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled watets for a purer This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I spring.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved . f LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...had penned me in their fold. ***** Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wide world I've dwelt in is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sisters voice reproved, ' That I with stern delights shoulj e'er have been so moved. It is the hush... | |
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