 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 Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 2931817Full view - About this book
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 pages
...troubled 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 sweet as if a Sister's voice renved, ith stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...wild world I dwelt in, is a thing ! Which warns me, with-it* stillnfiss,. tojorsake ' -' t'nT This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved i Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring I Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,' That I... | |
 | 1844 - 848 pages
...thing Which warus 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...That I, with stern delights, should e'er have been ci moved." And speaking of the exquisite loveliness of Claren?, he sings — " He who hath loved not,... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distractions ; — once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pages
...troubled 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...as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delight should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and thy... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...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 loved Lone ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...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 loved Lone ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...pure poetical source. An evening «cene by the side of the lake is thus exquisitely described >— ucture, and the latter its ' Corinthian uulunins.' • [Fi-ora the Spee dnsk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen— Save darkened Jura, whose capped heights... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. a. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 8. They are the native courtesies of a feeh'ng mind, showing themselves amid stern virtues and masculine... | |
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