 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 pages
...cast, These heavy walls to me had growu A hermitage—and all my own! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home: With spiders I had...place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill—yet, strange to tell! -In quiet we had learn'd to dwell— My very chains and I grew friends,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 pages
...These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage — and all my owu ! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had friendship made, And watch' d them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pages
...grown 122 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A hermitage — and all my own! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had...And why should I feel less than they? We were all inmate's of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet. strange to tell... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...— and all my own ! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders 1 had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen...than they ? We were all inmates of one place, And I, tiie monarch of eacli race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell ! In quiet we had learn'd to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage — and all my own ! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had friendship made. And wateh'd them in their sullen trade. Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage — and all my own ! And half I felt as they were come 380 To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had...moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they? ."83 We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet,... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage — and all my own ! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home ; With spiders I had friendship made, And watch 'd them in their sullen trade ; Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1864 - 466 pages
...as they were come To tear me from a second home ! 9. With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade, — Had seen the mice...moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they 3 . We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill, — yet,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 468 pages
...as they were come To tear me from a second home ! 9. With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade,— Had seen the mice by...place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill,—yet, strange to tell ! In quiet we had learned to dwell; My very chains and I grew friends,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage — and all my own ! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had...moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they S Wo were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange... | |
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And thus when they appear'd at last, And all my bonds aside were cast, These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage — and all my own ! And half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had... 
