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... Finish'd as they had begun , Proud of Persecution's rage ; One in fire , and two in field , Their belief with blood have seal'd ; 10 20 Dying as their father died , For the God their 4 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON . Stanzas Darkness.
... Finish'd as they had begun , Proud of Persecution's rage ; One in fire , and two in field , Their belief with blood have seal'd ; 10 20 Dying as their father died , For the God their 4 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON . Stanzas Darkness.
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... blood , I've seen it on the breaking ocean 170 180 Strive with a swoln convulsive motion , I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread : But these were horrors - this was woe Unmix'd with 14 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON .
... blood , I've seen it on the breaking ocean 170 180 Strive with a swoln convulsive motion , I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread : But these were horrors - this was woe Unmix'd with 14 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON .
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... a meal was bought With blood , and each sate sullenly apart Gorging himself in gloom : no love was left ; All earth was but one thought — and that was death , Immediate and inglorious ; and the pang Of famine fed 36 DARKNESS .
... a meal was bought With blood , and each sate sullenly apart Gorging himself in gloom : no love was left ; All earth was but one thought — and that was death , Immediate and inglorious ; and the pang Of famine fed 36 DARKNESS .
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... , Which terminated all : upon a tone , A touch of her's , his blood would ebb and flow , 50 And his cheek change tempestuously - his heart 60 Unknowing of its cause of agony . But she in these fond feelings had no share : 46 THE DREAM .
... , Which terminated all : upon a tone , A touch of her's , his blood would ebb and flow , 50 And his cheek change tempestuously - his heart 60 Unknowing of its cause of agony . But she in these fond feelings had no share : 46 THE DREAM .
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... blood in its blackest spring ; From thy own smile I snatch'd the snake , For there it coil'd as in a brake ; From thy own lip I drew the charm Which gave all these their chiefest harm ; In proving every poison known , I found the ...
... blood in its blackest spring ; From thy own smile I snatch'd the snake , For there it coil'd as in a brake ; From thy own lip I drew the charm Which gave all these their chiefest harm ; In proving every poison known , I found the ...
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Page 2 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 21 - Lone — as a solitary cloud, A single cloud on a sunny day, While all the rest of heaven is clear, A frown upon the atmosphere, That hath no business to appear When skies are blue, and earth is gay.
Page 31 - Then when nature around me is smiling, The last smile which answers to mine, I do not believe it beguiling, Because it reminds me of thine; And when winds are at war with the ocean, As the breasts I believed in with me, If their billows excite an emotion, It is that they bear me from thee.
Page 52 - That in the antique oratory shook His bosom in its solitude; and then — As in that hour — a moment o'er his face The tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced — and then it faded as it came...
Page 168 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 45 - Not by the sport of nature, but of man: These two, a maiden and a youth, were there Gazing — the one on all that was beneath Fair as herself — but the boy gazed on her; And both were young, and one was beautiful; And both were young — yet not alike in youth. As the sweet moon on the horizon's verge, The maid was on the eve of womanhood; The boy had fewer summers, but his heart Had far outgrown his years, and to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him...
Page 20 - It seem'd like me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate ; And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think. 1 know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine...
Page 7 - Twas still some solace, in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth. To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each With some new hope, or legend old, Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold.
Page 44 - The dread of vanish'd shadows. Are they so ? Is not the past all shadow ! What are they ' Creations of the mind ? The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, — and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
Page 8 - I ought to do — and did my best; And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him, with eyes as blue as heaven — For him my soul was sorely moved.