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... Childe Harold's pilgrimage, ed. by W. Hiley - Page 96by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...Switzerland, has seized every feature of a moonlight scene on the lake with his usual power and felicity. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains dusk yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...Switzerland, has seized every feature of a moonlight scene on the lake with his usual power and felicity. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains dusk yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...to this grand and terrible exhibition, we turn to the mild and gentle lake, at the close of day : " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear; Mellowing and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...Switzerland, has seized every feature of a moonlight scene on the lake with his usual power anil felicity. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains dusk yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...to this grand and terrible exhibition, we turn to the mild and gentle lake, at the close of day : " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear ; Mellowing and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...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...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinding - 1823 - 334 pages
...Sounds 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, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...a thing Which warna 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...with 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, Mellowed and... | |
| Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824 - 400 pages
...forsakc Earth's troublcd waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To v, i fi me from distraction ; once I loved Torn Ocean's roar,...thy soft murmuring Sound.s sweet as if a sister's voicc renroved , That I with stern dclights should c'cr have been M» mmred. LXXXVI. « C'est le calme... | |
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