 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1892 - 326 pages
...are calm ; Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. n. That which the world miscalls a gaol, A private closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty. Locks, bars, walls, leanness, though together met, Make me no prisoner,... | |
 | 1893 - 732 pages
...deep for tears." power of making things poetical even in prison : That which the world miscalls a gsol A private closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty. Locks, bars, walls, leanness, though together met, Make me no prisoner,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 pages
...1668, p. 96, dann in den Reliques p. 485 ff.), Str. 2, V. 1 ff. : That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me: Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty: Locks, bars, and solitnde together met, Make me no prisoner, but an... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1896 - 334 pages
...song of Loyally Confined ; here are two stanzas : ccliii.). " That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me ; Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty: Locks, bars, and solitude together met Make me no prisoner, but an... | |
 | Hiram Peck McKnight - 1896 - 216 pages
...all shall act that way. PRISON POETRY. IN PRISON. HY HARRISON. That which the world miscals a jail A private closet is to me; Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty: Locks, bars and solitude together met Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...make. Nor iron bars a cage." LOVELACE. To Altliaa. Fron Prison. " That which the world miscalls a jail A private closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty ; Locks, bars, and solitude, together see. Make me no prisoner, but... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 pages
...are calm ; Then strike, Afflictions! for your wounds are balm. That which the World miscalls a Jail, A Private Closet is to me; Whilst a Good Conscience is my oail, And Innocence my liberty. Locks, bars, walls, loneness, though together met, Make me no Prisoner;... | |
 | 1901 - 304 pages
...having narrowly escaped being shot as a spy. In it he says : — " That which the world miscalls a gaol, A private closet is to me, Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty. Locks, bars, walls, beams, though together met, Make me no prisoner,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pages
...my thoughts Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscalls a jail, foundness, And stand too much on seeming. If arts and sch bail, And innocence my liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude, together met, JIuke me no prisoner, but... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - 1904 - 516 pages
...also the old song of Loyalty Confined ; here are two stanzas : " That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me ; Whilst a good conscience is my hail, And innocence my liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude together met Make me no prisoner, but an... | |
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Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me : Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude, together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret. 
