 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
 | George E. Teter - American poetry - 1918 - 464 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... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...As men's have grown from sudden fears; 5 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 10 Are banned, and barred — forbidden... | |
 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - Books - 1924 - 494 pages
...so popular. Take the initial stanza, — "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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American poetry - 1921 - 450 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 Q Are banned, and barred — forbidden... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...As men's have grown from sudden fears; My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, S 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:... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 pages
...(1) 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 fatejof those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd and barr'd — forbidden fare;... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 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;... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 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... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...(1788-1824) THE PRISONER OF CHILLON A FABLE I My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I w has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air / Are banned, and barred—forbidden fare;... | |
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