 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...not ; / only stirr'd in this black spot, / only lived — / only drew THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN. iSi6. ore than me. I paused To look upon her, and her kindled...her long hair. As it stream'd o'er her ; her blue brothers — both had ceased to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still ; Alas, my own was full... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...— burst my chain with one strong bound, And rushed to him : — I found him not, / only stirred in arden's cultured round It shares the sweet carnation's...The lambkin crops its crimson gem ; The wild bee hound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath, —... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...black spot, / only lived,—/ only drew The accursed breath of dungeon dew, The last,—the sole,—the dearest link, Between me and the eternal brink, Which...to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. LESSON CXLVIU THE PRISONER OF CHILLON.—Corrnrom 1. WHAT next befell me then and there, I know not... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...— I burst my chain with one strong bound, And rushed to him : — I found him not, /only stirred in ot), And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,...Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the brothers — both had ceased to breathe. I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own was full... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...burst my chain with one strong bound, 210 And rush'd to him :— I found him not, / only stirr'd in this black spot, / only lived— / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew ; The last—the sole— the dearest link 21=; Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...admonished ; And rush'd to him :—I found him not I burst my chain with one stroag bound, / only stirr'd in this black spot, / only lived—/ only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew ; The last—the sole—the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...sound— I burst my chain with one strong bound, And rush'd to him :—I found him not, / only stirr'd in this black spot, /only lived —/only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew ; The last—the sole—the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Was broken in this fatal place.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...bound, And rushed to him : — I found him not, / only stirred in this black spot, / only lived, — 7 g h o g l l f]o brothers — both had ceased to breathe. I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own was full... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...rush'd to him : I found him not. I only stirr'd in this black spot ; I only lived — I only drew I'll m-h the prospects that arise To the dying Christian's...eyes ! Such the glorious vista, Faith Opens through brothers — both had oeased to breathe. I took that hand which lay so etill — Alas ! my own was... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 374 pages
...— I burst my chain with one strong bound And rush'd to him : — I found him not, / only stirr'd in this black spot, / only lived, / only drew The accursed...to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. 7 One on the earth, and one beneath — My brothers — both had ceased to breathe : I took that hand... | |
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The last — the sole — the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. 
