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 94by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1893 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sailing - 1963 - 744 pages
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| 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... | |
| 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...it cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — iu one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the...in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, 1o forsuke Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft... | |
| 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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