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... Lives of Celebrated American Indians - Page 72by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1817 - 628 pages
...purer spring. . Tins 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...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...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...margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingled, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and... | |
| 1817 - 608 pages
...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...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... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...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. LXXXVI. " It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...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,... | |
| Religion - 1818 - 904 pages
...purer This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I spring. loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring .Sounds sweet...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| 1818 - 896 pages
...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
...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. D a LXXXVI. It is tile hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
| De Clifford (fict.name.) - 1820 - 582 pages
....""•. . " » . I \ • :'.u. -.. i'r - jl "» I'- •:.-. *,•' .!•• • ii:': •! CHAPTER VI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...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 . f LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,... | |
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