 Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.  The works of lord Byron - Page 62by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. XII ee, man ! Arn. 310 Who loved me in a human shape; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me.... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1905 - 726 pages
...their lowly bed, 315 My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. xn I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, For I had buried one and all jio Who loved me in a human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. XII. I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, For I had buried one and all 320 Who loved me in a human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me... | |
 | Hallie Erminie Rives - London (England) - 1905 - 472 pages
...relief in composition. He wrote of Chillon's prisoner, but the agony in the lines was a personal one : "I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, j For I had buried one and all Who loved me in a human shape; No child — no sire — no kin had I,... | |
 | Isabel Moore - Readers - 1906 - 360 pages
...stride Along my cell, from side to side, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod. I made a footing in the wall, — It was not therefrom...and all Who loved me in a human shape; And the whole world would henceforth be A wider prison unto me ; But I was curious to ascend To my barred windows,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush' <1 heart fell blind and sick. XII. I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, For I had buried one and all 320 Who loved me in a human shape; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me :... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom...prison unto me: No child — no sire — no kin had I, THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN 389 er m my misery; of this, and I was glad, ;ht of them had made me mad;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 170 pages
...their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crushed heart felt blind and sick. XII I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, For I had buried one and all, 320 Who loved me in a human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick. I made a footing in the wall, It was not therefrom to escape, For I had buried one and all 320 Who loved me in a human shape; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...their lowly bed, Mr breath came gaspingly and thick, V-Td my crushed heart felt blind and sick. XII. ! arm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm. xci. Not vainly did the early Pe 320 Who loved me in a human shape; \nA the whole earth would henceforth \ wider prison unto me: S'o... | |
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