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 has been the fate... The Works of Lord Byron - Page 269by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823Full view - About this book
| 1854 - 456 pages
...j Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose...fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred, forbidden fare : But this was for my father's faith I suffered chains and courted... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...appeal from tyranny to God. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,* bas been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...from tyranny to God. I. Ыт hair is gray, but not with yean, Nor grew it white In a single night,1 rising knell! XXII. Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car Eat raited with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of... | |
| 1854 - 794 pages
...however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. fbt " Mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred." — Prisoner of Chilian. In one of the apartments of Windsor Castle remote from... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 296 pages
...though not with toU, 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 banned, and barred — forbidden fare." PBISONEB OF Cnnj,o\. lingered in and near the cathedral but... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...; Nor grew it white In a single night. As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose...fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred, forbidden fare : But this was for my father's faith I suffered chains and courted... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose...fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred, forbidden fare : But this was for my father's faith I suffered chains and courted... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 410 pages
...THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,i As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are...bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose,1 For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly... | |
| Helen Truesdell - 1856 - 226 pages
...maid ! To cheer the lone whose hopes have fled. THE CAPTIVE WARRIOR'S LAMENT. " My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose...fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred — forbidden fare." BYROS — Prisoner of CTiBon. AGAIN the morning sun returns,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 pages
...THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is grey, but not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are...fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are baun'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare ; But this was for my father's faith I suffer'd chains and courted... | |
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