 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
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - English poetry - 1999 - 306 pages
...Laura had been Petrarch's wife, / He would have written sonnets all his life?" 299. On Chillon Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...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,... | |
 | Richard W. Bailey - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 324 pages
...the sounet is "Liberty," but its opening lines had a more particular meaning for Rulloff: "Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! / Brightest in dungeons,...thou art, / For there thy habitation is the heart." However highly colored Rulloff s literary taste. it is no surprise that on entering the brutal regime... | |
 | Suzanne Enoch - Fiction - 2009 - 382 pages
...goes. Agreed?" Matthew pulled the cigar from his mouth and saluted. "Aye, aye, Captain." Chapter 11 Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art; For there thy habitation is the heart. —Lord Byron, "Sonnet to Chillon' Saint paced the length of the foyer. He should have given her five... | |
 | Drummond Bone - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 340 pages
...numinous and transhistorical resonance. Witness the sonnet on The Prisoner of Chillon (1816): Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart These words are not specific merely to the case of one political prisoner, but apply to all the oppressed... | |
 | Samuel A. Southworth - History - 2009 - 246 pages
...eventual death in the meanest of conditions. Lord Byron's poem "Sonnet on Chillon," which begins: "Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! / Brightest in dungeons,...thou art, / For there thy habitation is the heart," wonderfully captures the soulcrushing aspect of such lone confinement, and the daily struggle to overcome... | |
 | Kieran Dolin - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 26 pages
...Coleridge, or historical precursors like Francois de Bonnivard in Byron's 'Sonnet on Chillon': Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...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,... | |
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