 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
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 466 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. y. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | 1899 - 874 pages
...century. Dr. Murray suggests that Byron popularized this poetic use of the word. Thus, in "Childe Harold :"It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear. Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, The Academy. Save darken'd Jura, heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | Philip W. Martin - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 268 pages
...thing Which warns me, in 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 (III, Ixxxv) It is this aspect of the Reveries which leads Rousseau into a neoPlatonic position: 'in... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1985 - 1106 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 lov'd Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1996 - 580 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 lov'd Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth'? troubled waters for a purer spring. This ; There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts bat thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...warns me, with its stillness, to forsake 800 Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. LXXXV This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, 805 That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...thing Which warns me. with its stillness. to forsake Earth's trouhled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction: once I loved Tom ocean's roar. but thy soft murmuring 11 Lawrence Donald Yax. 'Ocean and Other Water Imagery in... | |
 | Mary Pruett - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 168 pages
...effective flies of all descriptions. Provided of course that you (all together, now) practice! This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction . . . — George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1788-1824, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage And Still More Wings What?... | |
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