 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...  Englische Studien - Page 5171880Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...1571. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! i.hou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...(Nrrui. THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN; A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. EniuuL «pint of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — be h*»rt which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy eons to fetters ore coneign'd — To... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 pages
...The first, last look by death reveal'd 1 SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...heart— The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd— To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...Necrology, from the month of July l570 to lS7l. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETEBNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - 1866 - 294 pages
...carcere spiritus acquirit, quam caro amittit." Tertullian. " Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind : And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 pages
...GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD BYRON. I. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art ; ; For...— " The heart which love of thee alone can bind ;- ' And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, — (L-- To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1870 - 964 pages
...ring in the pillar may still be seen. " Eternal spirit of the chalnless mind ! Brightest in dangerous liberty thou art, For there thy habitation is the...heart — The heart, which love of thee alone can bind ; And where thy sons to fetter* are consigned— To fetter*, and the damp vault's dayles* gloom, Their... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...CHILLÓN. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thon tbce alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are conslgn'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...more a leaf reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mindl cheek, and thine unquiet motions, Sorrow and shame...war To waste thee. Ber, Rather shame and sorrow ligh ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom—... | |
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