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
| Marlborough coll - 1870 - 796 pages
...Brightest in dungeons, liberty, thon art, For there thy habitation is the heart The heart which lore of thee 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,... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...prisoners of state, were confined. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. Eternal Spirit of the chainlesa 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 a... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...Necrology, from the month of July 1570 to 1571. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! For there thy habitation is the heart— The heart...bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd— Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 376 pages
...Page 259, line 24. And never more a leaf reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! * Brightest in dungeons,...thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are conaign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
| John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...And tells to man his glorious destinies. LORD BYRON. 1788—1824. ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON. 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... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...PRISONER OF CHILLON. Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! ' Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thon art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The...are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's day less gloom — Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 374 pages
...Spirit of the chainlesa Mind 1 * Brightest in dungeona, Liberty I thou art, For there thy habitation ia the heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy aons to fetters are consign'd — • To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country... | |
| Kent (England) - 1874 - 598 pages
...record of England's Worthies. " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty I thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—...martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind."—Byron. At Deal was born (1717) the learned Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, who " could make a pudding... | |
| Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - Fenians - 1874 - 488 pages
...body in its sufferings. " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind Brightest in dungeons — Liberty them art ; For there thy habitation is the heart — The...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 - 1874 - 552 pages
...in the pillar may still be seen. • " Eternal spirit of the chainless 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 fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country... | |
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