 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn,...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. i. My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,*... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn,...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. i. My hair a gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,'... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place. And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until liis very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold...marks efface; For they appeal from tyranny to God. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies: And... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a (race Worn, as if thy cold pavement was a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. BYRON. 4. On'the 4th of April, 1823, during the Taunton assizes, intense curiosity was excited by the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 356 pages
...deathless association to the already immortalised localities of the Lake."— E.] THE SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! (') Brightest...marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. (1) [In the first draught, the sonnet opens thus — " Beloved Goddess of the chainless mind ! Brightest... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 pages
...deathless association to the already immortalised localities of the Lake."— EJ SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind! (') Brightest...marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. (1) [In the first draught, the sonnet opens thus — " Beloved Goddess of the chainless mind ! Brightest... | |
 | John Grigg Hewlett - 1835 - 254 pages
...Until his very steps have left a trace. Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod. By Bonnivardt ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.' "From Chillon we pushed on across the Simplon, terrible in grandeur; from whose giddy heights we viewed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...Until his very steps have left a trace Worn , as if thy cold pavement were a sod , By Bounivord '. —May none those marks efface? For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. I. As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowed, though not... | |
 | 1837 - 594 pages
...walls of the famous Castle of Chillon, where Bonnivard, Byron's ' Prisoner,' lingered in chains : ' Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God !' The castle is at the foot of the hill, on the very margin of the lake, and seems almost to rise... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 pages
...Prisoner,' lingered in chains : 'Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad flor an altar— lor 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace,...marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God!' The castle is at the foot of the hill, on the very margin of the Lake, "and seems almost to rise out... | |
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To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar; for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left... 
