 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...purer spring. Th» quiet sail is as a noiseless wiiig To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Tom Elliot Гш1 with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 14 LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; LXXXVI. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pages
...waters for a purer spring! This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction ; onee I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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 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 - 1850 - 466 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...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,...margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ;... | |
 | William Edward Baxter - 1850 - 412 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
