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... The Saturday Magazine - Página 231844Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 páginas
...sermons awakened in his soul ! " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing, Which warns me with its stillness...as if a Sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." The lesson of the quiet sail is lost on board the anxious... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 páginas
...the lips will murmur " Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell ill, IB a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake...as if a sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been thus moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and... | |
| Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848 - 350 páginas
...with you," cried Mr. Wilmott; " I agree with you now from my heart. Once I thought differently — ' Once I loved torn Ocean's roar; but thy soft murmuring sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved.' I don't often quote Byron, my dear Miss Margaret ; you know, he is no favourite of mine ; but this... | |
| John Watkins - 1850 - 296 páginas
...troubled 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...as if a sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.' • Poetry is as the telescope, which discovers to us the... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 páginas
...thy soft mnrmnring Sonnds sweet as if a sister's voiee reproved, That I with stern delights shonld e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose... | |
| John Watkins - 1850 - 296 páginas
...troubled 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 sweet, as if a sister's _voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.' ' Poetry is as the telescope,... | |
| William Edward Baxter - 1850 - 412 páginas
...Midi alone are now tinged with gold; afterwards a gentle breeze rustles the tree tops, and then — " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk yet clear, Mellowed and mingled, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura ; whose... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1850 - 610 páginas
...troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft ine from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet ns If a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. ' ' BYRON.... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 páginas
...light Of a dark eye 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...as if a sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved, 9. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 páginas
...light Of a dark eye 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...as if a sister's voice reproved That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 9. I never tempted her with word too large j But as a brother... | |
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