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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... "
The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy - Page 29
by Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 278 pages
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Hebrew Melodies

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 324 pages
...27 Churchill's Grave 32 The Dream 35 The Incantation 46 Prometheus 50 Notes . 55 SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,...
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The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pages
...Churchill's Grave 32 The Dream 35 The Incantation 46 Prometheus . . 50 Notes ....... 55 SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 87, Part 1; Volume 121

1817 - 728 pages
...pathetically and elegantly told in Lord Byron's best style, and introduced by the following Sonnet :. "Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in...heart—- The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; [sign'd — And when thy sons to fetters are conTo fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, [tyrdom,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 87, Part 1; Volume 121

1817 - 710 pages
...the following Sonnet : " Eternal Spirit of the chainlegs mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ' tbou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The heart which love of tin r alone can bind ; [sign'd— And when thy sons to fetters are conTo fetters, and the damp vault's...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: Prisoner of Chillon. Manfred ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...61 MANFRED C7 Notes 167 LAMENT OF TASSO . . ... 169 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON, &c. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volume 6

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pages
...Notes 61 MANFRED C7 Notes 167 LAMENT OF TASSO . .169 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON, &c. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 260 pages
...They haunt ruins, and fallow armies. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAI, spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...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...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Lara. Siege of Corinth. Parisina. The prisoner of ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 294 pages
...him." * • Frizzi—Hiitory of Ferrara, > THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABLE. -. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in...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...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thpn art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned— To fetters, and the damp vault's day less gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: With ...

John Watkins - 1822 - 476 pages
...whom Lord Byron wrote this sonnet, prefixed to the poem of the prisoner of Chillon : BONNIVARD. 279 " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...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...
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