 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 I...  The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume - Page 33by George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 776 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 pages
...come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That 1 with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy... | |
 | Harold Spender - Alps - 1912 - 316 pages
...only turned below, Gazing upon the ground, with which thoughts dare not glow ? Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in,...stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling,... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - Switzerland - 1913 - 624 pages
...not in vain." And again further along : — " Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." And how beautifully he describes night on the lake : — " It is the hush of night, and all between... | |
 | 1914 - 344 pages
...sick at heart when I think that you have been brought up in her loveless creed. "Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwelt in,...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring." LOVE'S eyes are ever keen, and your father missed my laughter. We would go to Switzerland, he said,... | |
 | Frank Fox - Switzerland - 1914 - 290 pages
...bleeding heart," and found much prompting in Swiss scenery to proclaim his sorrows : Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. To Madame de Stael he presented a copy of Glenarvon, an English novel in which his "devilish" character... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...thing Wbich warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. soo This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 805 LXXXVI It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
 | Samuel Claggett Chew - Literary Criticism - 1915 - 204 pages
...the third canto this is shown: "Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness,...is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction" (stanza 85). Nature is the "balm of hurt minds." Tired of the fretful stir and fever of the world man... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV Clear, placid Leman ! Soo This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar,... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. 85 Clear, placid Leman! 86 It is the hush of night, and all between s Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. 800 This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 805 It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
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