 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 246 pages
...r THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. 57 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird! I could not wish for tliiuc ! Or if it were, in -winged guise, A visitant from Paradise...made, me both to weep and smile —• I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me; But then at last away it Hew, And then 't... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine — Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...thought, the while Which made me both to weep and smile I — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But then at last away it... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 422 pages
...its cage to perch on mine; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for tliine— . Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise...the while Which made me both to weep and smile I— I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me; But then at last away it flew,... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...free, Or broke its cnge to perch on mine; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine— • Or if it were, in winged guise, A...Paradise; For — heaven forgive that thought, the whfl» Which made me both to weep and smile 1— I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive that thought 1 the while 285 Which made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes...away it flew, And then 'twas mortal — well I knew, 290 For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone, — Lone — as the corse... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...its cage to perch on mine, 280 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine 1 Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise...; For — Heaven forgive that thought ! the while 285 Which made me Ijoth to weep and smile — I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's soul... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...I the while Which made me hoth to weep and smile ; I sometimes deem'd that it might he My hrother's with the imperial hearths, Ivy usurps the laurel's...Circus stands, A nohle wreck in rumous perfection ! W douhly lone — Lone, — as the corse within its shroud ; Lone, — as a solitary cloud — A single... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish us deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But then at last away it Hew, And then... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; 280 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine — Or if it were in winged guise, A visitant...Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive that thought, the while 2ss Which made me both to weep and smile ! — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! 1 could not wish for thine—- Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...Which made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes deein'd that it might be My brother's s/>ul come down to me ; But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
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None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think. 
