 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
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - Readers, American - 1888 - 345 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.... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1891
...was so glad to have escaped. CHAPTER XXVI. My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine hath been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd and barred — forbidden fare. —Prisoner of Chillón. WHEÎÎ the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 720 pages
...night,* As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with her eyes, through her every feature, Shines the soul of the has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Arc bann'd, rind b.irr'd — forbidden... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1892
...glad to have escap- vl. CHAPTER XXVII. • By Huibt ir. bowed, though not with toll, Bnt rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine hath been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air An banned, and barred — forbidden fare." or CUILIO-. WHEN the day dawned on... | |
 | David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 334 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 Fletcher Hurst - Church history - 1893 - 672 pages
...period of persecution for conscience' sake : " 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 633 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... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - English language - 1895 - 201 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1896
...As men's have grown from sndden fears: My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, t 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;... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897
...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:... | |
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