 I found him not. 7 only stirred in this black spot; / only lived — / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew; The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 2971817Full view - About this book
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 246 pages
...and one beneath — My brothers — both had ceased to breathe : Alas ! my own was full as chill; 1 had not strength to stir, or strive, But felt that...was still alive, — A frantic feeling when we know Tliat what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die, I had no earthly hope, — but... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...sole, the dearest, link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was oroken in this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath...breathe I took that hand which lay so still — Alas I my own was full as chill ; I had not strength to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...last — the soul, — the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. One on the earth,...beneath — My brothers— both had ceased to breathe : J took that hand which lay so still; Alas, my own was full as chill ; I had not strength to stir,... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1878 - 772 pages
...last— the sole— the dearest link 215 Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. One on the earth,...beneath — My brothers— both had ceased to breathe : 220 I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own was full as chill ; I had not strength to... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...— the sole — the dearest link 215 Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. One on the earth,...beneath— My brothers— both had ceased to breathe : 220 I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own was full as chill ; I had not strength to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 408 pages
...The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.' One on the earth, and one beneath— My brothers—both had ceased to breathe: I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own was full... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...this fatal place. One on the earth, and one heneath — My hrothers — hoth had ceased to hreathe e wave her structures rise As from he so. I know not why I could not die ; I had no earthly hope — hut faith, And that forhade a selfish... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...failing race, broken in this fatal place, on the earth, and one beneath, — mothers — both liad hore is this ? The gulf, the rock of Salamis ! These...ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires wo know That what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die, I had no earthly hope... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...last, the sole, the dearest link 215 Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. One on the earth,...beneath — My brothers — both had ceased to breathe. =.-0 I took that hand that lay so still — Alas ! my own was full as chill; I had not strength to... | |
 | John Sherer - 1879 - 322 pages
...favourite and the flower, Most oherish'd since his natal hour." He died, and the Prisoner says — " I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own was full as chill ; I had no strength to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive — A frantic feeling, when we know... | |
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