 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1864 - 466 pages
...prisoners of state, were confined. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. BYRON. Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art^ For there...heart, — The heart which love of thee alone can bind. 1. THEY chained us each to a column stone, And we were three, — yet each alone ; "We could not move... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - Nazi concentration camps - 1866 - 290 pages
...example. * BOOK SECOND. " Plus in carcere spiritus acquirit, quam caro amittit." Tertullian. " Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind." Prisoner of ChiUan. WITHIN the deadly shadows of this enormous... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 pages
...fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd 1 SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd— To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | 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...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 372 pages
...respect, especially considering GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD BYRON. I. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...bind ;- ' And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, — (L-- To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...feels, And never more a leaf reveals. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - Europe - 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...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 country... | |
 | 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 Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art ! For there...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | Edward Brown (of Brooklyn, N.Y.) - 1868 - 22 pages
...estimate of the religions Liberty they so largely aided to purchase for us and for the world. " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind, Brightest in dungeons,...thy habitation is the heart, The heart which love of thce atone can bind. And when thy sons to fetters are confined, To fetters and the damp vault's dayleas... | |
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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 left... 
