 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...Necrology, from the month of July l570 to lS7l. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETEBNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. t. : In lion ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - Nazi concentration camps - 1866 - 290 pages
...example. * BOOK SECOND. " Plus in carcere spiritus acquirit, quam caro amittit." Tertullian. " Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...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 martyrdom,... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - Europe - 1870 - 964 pages
...ring in the pillar may still be seen. " Eternal spirit of the chalnless mind ! Brightest in dangerous liberty thou art, For there thy habitation is the...The heart, which love of thee alone can bind ; And where thy sons to fetter* are consigned— To fetter*, and the damp vault's dayles* gloom, Their country... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 372 pages
...The heart which love of thee alone can bind ;- ' And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, — (L-- To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, _^And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...CHILLÓN. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thon tbce alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are conslgn'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's... | |
 | Edward Brown (of Brooklyn, N.Y.) - 1868 - 22 pages
...estimate of the religions Liberty they so largely aided to purchase for us and for the world. " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind, Brightest in dungeons,...thy habitation is the heart, The heart which love of thce atone can bind. And when thy sons to fetters are confined, To fetters and the damp vault's dayleas... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - Europe - 1868 - 806 pages
...fottoix are com<tpned — • To fcttcr¡s ami thu damp vivult'H tlayloM gloom, 609 CHILLÓN. BASLL Their country conquers with their martyrdom. And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Cbilloiil thy prison i.-ia holy pliicc, And thy t-ad Hour an altar; for 'twas trod Tntil hin very ctt'jM... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth. LIBERTY. Eternal spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...consign'd, — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloonfj Their country conquers yr\rt\ ftwAt maitviAom, And Freedom's fame finds -wings on every BYRON.... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 436 pages
...And in the light of Truth thy bondman let me live. W. Wordsworth CCIX ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON 1 -> Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art For there...heart — The heart which love of Thee alone can bind ; Tj* TERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd, To fetters,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...ruin feels. And never more a leaf reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN. 1816. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERNAL its ! smile down upon me ; for ray cause is yours, in all life now 284 Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an aliar— for 'twas trod, Until his... | |
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