 To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.  The works of lord Byron - Page 49by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...feels, And never more a leaf reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON; A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy eons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...an hiatus occurs in the Necrology, from the month of July 15/0 to 1571. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy SODS to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers... | |
 | John Robinson Tait - Europe - 1859 - 172 pages
...beauty of Byron's sonnet, as I repeated it to myself: — " Eternal spirit of the chainless mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...sensibility. — JEFFIEY.] =o BYRON'S WORKS. of SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERVAL Spirit of the chainlcss m the @0 thec alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters arc consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...reason give ; And in the light of Truth thy bondman let me live. CCIX ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...martyrdom And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod, Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place Worn as if thy cold... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...embraced whole nations with its branches, and sheltered them under its leaves. — Chatliam. — Eternal spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...martyrdom, And freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Byron. — A member of Parliament is originally to be tender of his own liberty, that other men may... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 366 pages
...; And in the light of Truth thy bondman let me live. W. Wordsworth ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...with their martyrdom And Freedom's fame finds wings ou every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod, Until... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...spectres had return'd again, And from the grave an armed nation sprang. EB LITTON. <£ hillon. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...heart, which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sous to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...him." * 'Tumi— Hworj of (Nrrui. THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN; A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. EniuuL «pint of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty...! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — be h*»rt which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy eons to fetters ore coneign'd — To... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1864 - 466 pages
...prisoners of state, were confined. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. BYRON. Eternal Spirit of the chainless 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... | |
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