 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 - Pagina 72door Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 315 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1851 - 496 pagina’s
...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 - 1851 - 468 pagina’s
...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 - 1851 - 472 pagina’s
...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 - 1851 - 468 pagina’s
...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 - 1851 - 352 pagina’s
...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 - 1852 - 314 pagina’s
...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) - 1852 - 512 pagina’s
...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 - 1852 - 416 pagina’s
...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 - 1852 - 192 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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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