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 Saturday Magazine - Page 231844Full view - About this book
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...troubled 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...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! Oh... | |
| 1817 - 628 pages
...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, but thy soft murmuring...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... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...OF 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,...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... | |
| 1817 - 608 pages
...troubled 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...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 and... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...troubled 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...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 margin... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...Heaven again assail'd, if Heaven the while On man and man's research could deign to do more than smile. Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring? Sounds sweet as if a sister's v CVI. " The one was fire and fickleness, a cliild, Most mutable in wishes, but hi mind, A wit as various,... | |
| 1818 - 896 pages
...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...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... | |
| Religion - 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...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...troubled 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...as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. D a LXXXVI. It is tile hush of night, and all between Thy... | |
| De Clifford (fict.name.) - 1820 - 582 pages
....""•. . " » . I \ • :'.u. -.. i'r - jl "» I'- •:.-. *,•' .!•• • ii:': •! CHAPTER VI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose... | |
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