 Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.  The works of lord Byron - Page 62by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...stride Along my cell, from side to side, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod. 6. I made a footing in the wall,— It was not therefrom...human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth b« A wider prison unto me ; But I was curious to ascend To my barred windows, and to bend Once more,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom...earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : No child—no sire—no kin had I, No partner in my misery; I thought of this and I was glad, For thought... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...profaned their lowly lied, Jly breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crushed heart fell bliud aiid sick. ll-embracing arms ! Like a fond mother hide me in thy bosom, And rock me to the sleep from Wlio loved me in a human shape : And the whole earth would henceforth bo A wider prison unto me : Ko... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...their lowly bed, 315 My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. XII. I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, For I had buried one and all 320 Who loved me in a human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and tick. I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escapo, And the whole earth would henceforth bo A wider prison unto me : No child—no sire—no kin... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. his scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean...1681, Died 1765. 857.— THOUGHTS ON TIME. The bel mo ; No child, no sire, no kin had I, No partner in my misery. I thought of this, and I was glad, For... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...cell, from side to side, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves — without a sod. I made & footing — in the wall, — It was not therefrom...would — henceforth— be A wider prison unto me; But I was curious to ascend To my barr'd windows, and to bend — Once more upon the mountains hiijli—... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1873 - 898 pages
...their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And ray crush'd heart fell blind and sick. XII. Like the first moonrise of midnight ; Large, dark,...stream, Which seem'd to melt to its own beam ; Al j And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : .No child— no sire— no kin had... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...holiday ; — All this rushed with his blood; — and glut your ire! BYKON. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. I MADE a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom...earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me: But I was curious to ascend To my barred windows, and to bend Once more upon the mountains high, The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...he expire. And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire l BYRON. THE PRISONER OF CHILIAN. I MADE a footing in the wall. It was not therefrom to escape, For 1 hod buried one and all. Who loved me in a human shape; And the whole earth would henceforth be A... | |
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