 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 - Seite 72von Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 315 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1840 - 378 Seiten
...thickest of war's tempest lower'd, They reach'd no nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard ! It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin...mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capp'd heights appear Precipitously steep ; and, drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 Seiten
...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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. (Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgr.) Friendship by sweet reproof is shown, (A virtue never near a throne)... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 Seiten
...purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn rr ! ( 1 ) TO ROMANCE. PARERT of golden dreams, Romance ! Auspicious queen of childish joys, W stem delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 Seiten
...purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn er, But as thou wast and art — nay, frown not, lord,...word — But as thou wast and art, on thee looks d LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | 1843 - 368 Seiten
...nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard ! ******** It is the hush of night, and all between TJiy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd...mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capp'd heights appear Precipitously steep ; and, drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 Seiten
...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 Sounds sweet...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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 Seiten
...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,...That I, with stern delights, should e'er have been to moved." And speaking of the exquisite loveliness of Claren^ he sings— " He who hath loved not,... | |
 | 1844 - 288 Seiten
...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 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... | |
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