 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...  Famous Men of Modern Times - Page 72by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft uie from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 9. I never tempted her with word too large j But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved, 9. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet...That I with stern delights should e'er have been so mored. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeling mind, showing themselves amid stern virtues and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...distraetion ; onee I loved Torn oeean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voiee 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 and tho mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 314 pages
...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 Sounds sweet...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Alps, Italian (Italy) - 1852 - 512 pages
...purer spring. This 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...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingled, yet distinctly seen, •a, wnoi appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near,... | |
 | David Bogue - Savoy (France and Italy) - 1852 - 416 pages
...This quiet sail IS as a noiseless wing Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as ifa sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights...between Thy margin and the mountains dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen. Save darkened Jura, whose cap heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | Jacob B. Wood - Europe - 1852 - 192 pages
...quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved 'I orn ocean's roar, hut thy soft murmuring, Sounds sweet as if a sister's...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." I hope the frequent quotations from BYRON will not be deemed out of place. Poetry is, in sober truth,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...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 Sounds sweet...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, • Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
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