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" None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think. I 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! "
Select Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: In Two Volumes - Page 16
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823
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Acrostics in prose and verse, a sequel to Double acrostics by various ...

Acrostics - 1865 - 260 pages
...— So spake the warning prophet.' 5. ' Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death.' 6. ' I know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, Or if it were in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise.' 7. ' Ere that steep ascent was won, High...
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A Selection from the Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 pages
...say them all for me ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more : It seem'd like me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate,...late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise,...
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Select Readings from the Poets and Prose Writers of Every Country

James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...say them all for me ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more : It seem'd like me, to want a mate, But was not half so desolate,...late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were in winged guise,...
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Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...than upon the tree ; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, It seem'd, like me, to want a mate, But was not half so desolate,...my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and thiuk. l know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity,...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With ... Notes and a Life of the ..., Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...say them all for mo ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more : It seem'd like me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate,...late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise,...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, complete. (Pearl ed.).

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 738 pages
...saw iti like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness moro : It eeem'd like me to want a mate, l un. _S &h & 8 & But knowing well captivityŤ Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise....
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The poetical works of lord Byron. Repr. with notes, &c, Issue 35

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...say them all for me ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness- more : It seem'd, d howling on the brink, Knowing (dogs have zuch intellectual...he stepp'tl Off, threw him in, then after him he Ic 1 know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; But knowing well captivity, Sweet...
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What I Saw in Dixie, Or, Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons

Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers - History - 1868 - 168 pages
...like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more, And It was come to love me, when Hone lived to lore me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink...brought me back to feel and think. I know not if it bite were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could...
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The Young Englishman's First Poetry Book, Compiled by E. C. Lowe

Edward Clarke LOWE - 1868 - 186 pages
...say them all for me ; I never saw its like before, i I ne'er shall see its likeness more: It seem'd like me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate, But it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink,...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Original Editions, with ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 768 pages
...say them all for me ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see its likeness more : It seem'd, 0 \vere free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine. But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird, I could not...
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