 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : 35 And in each -pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a...painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun to rise For years — I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, 45 When my last... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 408 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...these eyes, Which have not seen the sun so rise For years—I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, When my last brother droop'd and... | |
 | 1879 - 798 pages
...good friend to me, said Scrooge (Dickens); For she is always near to me, Though far I am away (Song); Till I have done with this new day, which now is painful to these eyes (Byron); When day was beautiful to me As to young eagles, being free (id); It was not even the dungeon-light,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp, — And in each pillar there is a ring, he world, and all the wonder Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 328 pages
...so clamp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a...cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, Castle of Chillon. I lost their long and heavy score When my last brother drooped and died, And I lay... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 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...cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, 25 35 28. In Chillon's dungcons. The Castle of Chillon, with its massive walls and towers, one and... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...; Creepmg o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, 'st Even now to reassume the imperial mien, And shake again the world, the Thund limhs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away, Till I have done with this new day, Which... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn - 1909 - 324 pages
...Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp0 : 35 And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering0 thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away 40 Till I... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring. the sweet cold hand! There, that is our secret :...remember, and understand. 1855. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS WHER Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John - 1911 - 268 pages
...Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp0 : 35 And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a...will not wear away, 40 Till I have done with this new day,0 Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun so rise For years — I cannot... | |
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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... 
