 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 - Σελίδα 72των Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 315 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 σελίδες
...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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." The lesson of the quiet sail is lost on board the anxious steamer with her noisy paddles ; but any... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 σελίδες
...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...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 the mountains, dusk yet clear,... | |
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848 - 350 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 σελίδες
...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,...clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 σελίδες
...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.' • Poetry is as the telescope, which discovers to us the beauties of the moon and stars ; politics... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 466 σελίδες
...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 Sounds sweet...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... | |
 | William Edward Baxter - 1850 - 412 σελίδες
...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 capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1850 - 610 σελίδες
...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. DAY had fairly dawned before the young man, whom we have left in the situation described... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 σελίδες
...purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; onee I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet...mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinetly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and, drawing near,... | |
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