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
| Henry Major - 1873 - 168 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 ;... | |
| George Gill (schoolmaster.) - 1874 - 170 pages
...night, As men's have grown with sudden fears j My 'imbs 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 baun'd and barr'd— forbidden fare... | |
| Henry Major - 1875 - 268 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 j... | |
| English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...to God. t. My hair is gray, 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 banned, and barred — forbidden fare.... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - Anthologies - 1875 - 240 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... | |
| Jane W. Bruner - California - 1877 - 266 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.'... | |
| Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...night, As men's have grown Irom 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.... | |
| Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1878 - 422 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.... | |
| Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 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... | |
| William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...prisoner — his premature grayness. 38o 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.... | |
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