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... The Christian Observer - Page 2531818Full view - About this book
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...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 Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." And now, " The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wond'rous... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pages
...waters for a 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...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingled, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| 1817 - 608 pages
...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 Sounds...e'er have been so moved. ' It is the hush of night, aad all between Thy margin and the mountains, dust, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly... | |
| 1816 - 696 pages
...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 Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
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...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
...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 Sounds...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...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 Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. D a LXXXVI. It is tile hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
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....""•. . " » . I \ • :'.u. -.. i'r - jl "» I'- •:.-. *,•' .!•• • ii:': •! CHAPTER VI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin...clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously sleep; and drawing near There breathes a living... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...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 Sounds...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved . f LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
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...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 Sounds...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... | |
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