 I begg'd them, as a boon, to lay His corse in dust whereon the day Might shine — it was a foolish thought, But then within my brain it wrought, That even in death his freeborn breast In such a dungeon could not rest. I might have spared my idle prayer...  The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems - Page 10by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 60 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...— it was a foolish thought, But then within my brain it wrought, That even in death his freeborn breast In such a dungeon could not rest. I might have...laid him there : The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant, Such murder's fitting monument ! VIII.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...— it was a foolish thought, But then within my brain it wrought, That even in death his frecborn fields, and the abodee of men Scatter'd at intervals,...¡—the hill Was crown'd with a peculiar diadem The being we во much did love ; His empty chain above it leant, Such murder's fitting monument! Hut... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...— it was a foolish thought, But then within my brain it wrought, That even in death his free-horn breast In such a dungeon could not rest. I might have...laid him there: The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant, Such murder's fitting monument ! But... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...shine ; it was a foolish thought. But then within my brain it wrought. That even in death his free-born breast In such a dungeon could not rest. I might have...laid him there : The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant, — Such murder's fitting monument... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...within my brain it wrought, That even m death his free-born breast In such a dungeon could not rest. 1 might have spared my idle prayer — They coldly laugh'd— and laid him there : The flat and turflcss earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant, Such murder's... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...shine,—it was a foolish thought,— But then within my brain it wrought, That'even in death his freeborn breast In such a dungeon could not rest. I might have spared my idle prayer,— They coldly laughed,—and laid him there; The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love,—... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...day might shine.' The jtiilers ' Coldly laugh, and laid him there : The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant. . . . He faded. . . . With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as mockery of the tomb, Whose tints... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...day might shine.' The jailers ' Coldly laugh, and laid him then- : The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant. . . . He faded. . . . With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as mockery of the tomb, Whose tints... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...— it was a foolish thought, But then within my brain it wrought, That even in death his freeborn NL laughed, and laid him there. The flat and turHcss earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...shine—it was a foolish thought, But then within my brain it wrought, That oven in death his freoborn breast In such a dungeon could not rest. I might have spared my idle prayer— They coldly laugh'd—and laid him therv The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His... | |
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