 A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate...  Littell's Living Age - Page 4011849Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery; But then by dull degrees came back 260 My senses to their wonted track, I saw the dungeon...glimmer of the sun Creeping as it before had done, 265 But through the crevice where it came That bird was perch'd, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon... | |
 | William D. Bain - 2005 - 130 pages
...days, a little hope my own to raise. For I was sunk in silence, lost in this last loss of all the most. I saw the dungeon walls and floor close slowly round...glimmer of the sun creeping as it before had done. For heaven forgive that thought, the while that made me both weep and smile, cheering from my dungeon's... | |
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