 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 632 pages
...their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crushed heart felt 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 ; 1. [Compare — " I wandered lonely as a cloud." Worhs of W. Wordsworth,... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - English poetry - 1902 - 432 pages
...their lowly bed, 315 My breath came gaspingly and thick. And my crushed 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... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...crushed heart fell blind and sick. I made a footing in the wall ; It was not therefrom to escape, 20 For I had buried one and all Who loved me in a human...wider prison unto me; No child, no sire, no kin had I, 25 No partner in my misery; 31 I thought of this, and I was glad, For thought of them had made me mad... | |
 | Hallie Erminie Rives - London (England) - 1904 - 492 pages
...relief in composition. He wrote of Chillon's prisoner, but the agony in the lines was a personal one : "I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom...buried one and all Who loved me in a human shape; No child — no sire — no kin had I, No partner in my misery; But I was curious to ascend To my barred... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 772 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... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 726 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... | |
 | Hallie Erminie Rives - London (England) - 1904 - 476 pages
...the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, For I had buried one and all Who loved me in a human shape; No child — no sire — no kin had I, No partner in my misery; But I was curious to ascend To my barred windows, and to bend Once more, upon the mountains high, The... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crushed heart fell blind and sick. I made a footing in the wall; It was not therefrom to escape, 20 For I had buried one and all Who loved me in a human shape; And the whole earth would henceforth... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crushed heart fell blind and sick. I made a footing in the wall ; It was not therefrom to escape, 20 For I had buried one and all Who loved me in a human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 628 pages
...Compare, too. The Dream, line 166, vide post, p. 39 — " What business had they there at such a time ? "] And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : l No child — no sire — no kin had I, No partner in my misery ; I thought of this, and I was glad,... | |
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