 | George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 242 pages
...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...sail is as a noiseless wing •» To waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 pages
...thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell ill, IB a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring...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 as if a sister's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 pages
...! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing That warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring....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 pages
...Darkness, 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...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
...! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing That warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring....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,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1850 - 610 pages
...lake With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stiliness, to forsake Karth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft ine from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet ns If a... | |
 | 1850 - 498 pages
...! thy contrasted lake, With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warm me, with in »tilines, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring . This quiet sail is as a noiseless wins To bear me from destruction.'1 But hush ! the sliadows of evening fall ovtr the scene. " All heaven... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...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....with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...Darkness, 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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. 9. I never tempted her with word too large j But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
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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... 
