Sonnet To Lake Leman By Byron - Ghizela Rowe

Sonnet To Lake Leman By Byron

Rousseau Voltaire our Gibbon and De Staël

Leman these names are worthy of thy shore

Thy shore of names

Like these wert thou no more

Their memory thy remembrance would recall

To them thy banks were lovely as to all

But they have made them lovelier

For the lore

Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core

Of human hearts the ruin of a wall

Where dwelt the wise and wondrous

But by thee

How much more Lake of Beauty

Do we feel

In sweetly gliding over thy crystal sea

The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal

Which of the Heirs of Immortality

Is proud and makes the breath of Glory real