 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...mingled with it—a very rare circumstance In Byron's writings 1 And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering tiling, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear awrxy, Till I have done... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...left, Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor-lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a...its teeth remain With marks that will not wear away Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...— Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp ; And in each pillar there is a ring, tations ! Nor, perchance, If I should be where I no those limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away Till I have done with this new day,... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...— Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a...its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away Till I have done with this new day, 10* Which now is painful » these eyes, Which have not seen the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a...teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away, Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun... | |
 | 1875 - 400 pages
...and clamorously free ; and who can with justice and reason appropriate to themselves the lines : " That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs...teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away. Till I have done with this new day." But all those charges and recriminations may be laid down on the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 246 pages
...Three were in a dungeon cast,' Of whom this wreck is left the last. Finished as they had begun, ii. And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, There are seven pillars of Gothic mould In Chillon's dungeons deep and old, There are seven columns,... | |
 | 1877 - 294 pages
...left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a...teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away, Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away, Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful...sun so rise For years — I cannot count them o'er I I lost their long and heavy score When my last brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side.... | |
 | S. H - 1878 - 138 pages
...creature like Bonnivard at Chillón " Only drew "The accursed breath of dungeon dew," and experienced " That iron is a cankering thing " For in these limbs its teeth remain " With marke that will not wear away." It is now known as Marten's tower (vide Henry Marten), and a spiral... | |
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A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; 'That... 
