| English poetry - 1869 - 436 pages
...And in the light of Truth thy bondman let me live. W. Wordsworth CCIX ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON 1 -> Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art For there...heart — The heart which love of Thee alone can bind ; Tj* TERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd, To fetters,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...the ruin feels. And never more a leaf reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN. 1816. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. e ? Spirits ! smile down upon me ; for ray cause is yours, in all life now 284 Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an aliar— for 'twas trod, Until his... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1870 - 796 pages
...Brightest in dungeons, liberty, thon art, For there thy habitation is the heart The heart which lore of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...prisoners of state, were confined. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. Eternal Spirit of the chainlesa mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art, For there...heart,— • The heart which love of thee alone can bind. 1. THEY chained us each to a column stone, And we were three,—yet each alone; We could not move a... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...Necrology, from the month of July 1570 to 1571. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! For there thy habitation is the heart— The heart...bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd— Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's... | |
| John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...peaceful" lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies. LORD BYRON. 1788—1824. ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 376 pages
...6.— Page 259, line 24. And never more a leaf reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! * Brightest...thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are conaign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...PRISONER OF CHILLON. Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! ' Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thon art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The...are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's day less gloom — Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 374 pages
...Spirit of the chainlesa Mind 1 * Brightest in dungeona, Liberty I thou art, For there thy habitation ia the heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy aons to fetters are consign'd — • To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country... | |
| Kent (England) - 1874 - 598 pages
...record of England's Worthies. " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty I thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—...martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind."—Byron. At Deal was born (1717) the learned Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, who " could make a pudding... | |
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