 PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine...  The Book of Table-talk - Page 1by Charles MacFarlane - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose ; For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned, and barred, — forbidden fare.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...night,* As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose. For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd— forbidden fare... | |
 | John A. Marshall - Martial law - 1869 - 754 pages
...immortal language of the Prisoner of Chillon, 'My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil ; And mine have been the fate of those For whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred — forbidden fare.'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...night,* As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, Rut rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1870 - 630 pages
...Prisoner of Chillón," he seems to say, " My limbs are bow'd, thonjjh not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine have been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth, and air Are bann'd and barr'd forbidden fare."... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...As men's have grown from sudden fears : J[y limbs are bowed, though not with toil, Hut rusted with lliam has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are Iranned, and barred, — forbidden... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, 5 But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare;... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...with toil, MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white, In a single night, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd and barr'd—forbidden fare:... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd and barrM — forbidden fare... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, Bnt rusted with V has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd and barr'd — forbidden fare.... | |
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