 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...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt. Campe's ed - Sida 163efter George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Roby - 1838 - 444 sidor
...feeling, might have rapt the poet to a nobler aim, and consecrated his muse to higher purposes : — " 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." But I am aware... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 sidor
...he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings. LAKE OF GENEVA.— BYRON. 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 sidor
...vanquished, Silence, but not submission : in his lair [bear FixM Passion holds his breath, until the hour y rich, that they alone, under the circumstances «plained,...celebrity to tbie poem." Sif E. Budget. — LE i (2/ slowe wer er. / (1) Daring Lord Byron's stay in Switzerland, he took up bis residence at the well-known... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 sidor
...Nay, son •*— I think you speak in charity As one who blames through love. — (Knowles's Wife.) Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stilness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 sidor
...holds his breath, until the hour Which shall atone for years ; none need despair : It came, it comcth, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 sidor
...cometh, and will come, — the power To punish or forgive — in one we shall be slower. CAHTO III. LXXXV. 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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sidor
...like thine my life's last ray Will fade in loneliness, unwept away. KIRKE WHITE. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 430 sidor
...those better impulses, which sweet nature sometimes with her simple 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 i',s stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring ! This quiet sail... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 sidor
...shall atone for years ; none need despair: It came, it comelh, and will come, — the power To punisii or forgive — in one we shall be slower. LXXXV. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With (he wild world 1 dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with ils silliness, lo forsake Earth's troubled... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 sidor
...vanquish 'd, bear Silence, but not submission : in his lair Fix'd Passion holds his breath, until the hour LXXXT. Clear, placid Leman 1 thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt In, is a thing Which... | |
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