 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft uie from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar,...between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 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. 9. I never tempted her with word too large j But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 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, 9. I never tempted her with word too large ; But as a brother to a sister showed Bashful sincerity... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 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...with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. LXXXVI It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - English literature - 1927 - 310 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...so moved. It is the hush of night, and all between 10 Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - Elocution - 1927 - 408 pages
...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. SHELLEY: To a Skylark. NIGHT It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin...clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen. Save darken 'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living... | |
 | 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...clear. Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen, The Academy. Save darken'd Jura, heights appear Precipitously steep, etc. whose capt Before Byron only... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
