 | 1870 - 972 pages
...Bonnivard snaps his chain with one violent wrench to get to him. " I found him uot ; / only stirred in this black spot; / only lived ; / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon dew." Then so dark grew his face, so bitter was the expression he contrived to infuse into... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...nature's feebleness ; I listened, but I could not hear,— I called, for I was wild with fear; I called, and thought I heard a sound,— I burst my chain with one strong bound, And rushed to him.—I found him not, / only stirred in this black spot, / only lived,—/ only drew The... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...I was wild with fear ; I knew 'twas hopeless, but my dread Would not be thus admonished ; I call'd, and thought I heard a sound— I burst my chain with...—/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.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...be thus 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,... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...ivas wild with fear; I knew 't was hopeless, but my dread Would not be thus admonished ; J called, ll the lie. rushed to him : — I found him not, /only stirred in this black spot, / only lived, — / only drew... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...for I was wild with fear; I knew 'twas hopeless, but my dread Would not be thus admonished; I called, and thought I heard a sound— I 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 376 pages
...was wild with fear ; I knew 't was hopeless, but my dread Would not be thus admonished ; I call'd, and thought I heard a sound— I burst my chain with...found him not, / only stirr'd in this black spot, I only lived, / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew; The last, the sole, the dearest link... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...I was wild with fear ; I knew 'twas hopeless, but my dread Would not be thus admonished ; I call'd, Without some thistly sorrow at its side, I only stirr'd in this black spot ; I only lived — I only drew I'll accursed breath of dungeon-dew... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...feebleness; — I listened, but I could not hear; I called, for I was wild — with fear: — I called, and thought — I heard a sound, — I burst my chain — with one strong bound, And rushed to him: I found him not, I— only — stirred — in this black spot, I — only — lived,... | |
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...for I was wild with fear; I knew 'twas hopeless, but my dread Would not be thus admonished; I called, and thought I heard a sound — I burst my chain with one strong bound, And rushed to him : — I found him not, /only stirred in this black spot, 1 only lived, /only drew The... | |
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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. 
