 | American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...thing Which warns me with its stilluess to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring : This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.' Mark the contrast : ' The sky is changed ! and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye... | |
 | Hezekiah Hartley Wright - Europe - 1838 - 414 pages
...thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. The quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved." " Now where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between," &c. • Before leaving Geneva, I will advert... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...salvation bought, And perfect righteousness, for all who should In his great name believe. AN ALPINE STORM. 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... | |
 | Hezekiah Hartley Wright - Europe - 1838 - 396 pages
...thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. The quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once, I loved Tom Ocean's roar ; but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet, as if a sister's voice reproved, That 1 with... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 452 pages
...witters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless u im,; 'Го waft me from destruction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister* s voice reproved, That 1 with stern delights should e'er ha re been so moved. It is the hnsh... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Alps, French (France) - 1838 - 446 pages
...spring. This quiet tail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from destruction; ouce I loved Torn orean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That 1 with stern delights should e'er hare been so moved. It is the hush of night, and ull between Tby... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 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 loved Tom ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...thickest of war's tempest lower'd, They reach'd no nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard ! It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin...mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darken'd Jura, whose capp'd heights appear Precipitously steep ; and, drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...thing Which warns me, with its stilness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. (Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgr.) Friendship by sweet reproof is shown, (A virtue never near a throne)... | |
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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 I... 
