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Subject: GENEVA (LAKE), SWITZERLAND
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LAKE LEMAN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And all is over; and again I stand
Last Line: Dimly the hope we twain were called unto.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Leman, Lake


LAKE LEMAN AND CHILLON, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the old genevan wharf she lay
Last Line: By a guest with a bad digestion!
Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MIDNIGHT AT GENEVA, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The azure lake is argent now
Last Line: To the long-sighed-for smile.
Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MONT BLANC AT SUNSET, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas late - the sun had almost shone
Last Line: To walk unstained the elysian shade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Lake Of Geneva
Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rousseau, voltaire, our gibbon, and de stael
Last Line: Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): "lake Leman;""rousseau-voltaire-our Gibbon-and De Stael"";
Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Stael, Anna (necker) De (1766-1817); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Leman, Lake


THE LAKE OF GENEVA, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day glimmered and I went, a gentle breeze
Last Line: Saying it was not!
Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Leman, Lake