My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate... Notes and Queries - Page 2041900Full view - About this book
| Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...aleove, Sit, a lone spectre on yon well-known grave, And mix its moanings with the desert wave. : CHILLON MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white...single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...Bonnivard ! ' — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. MY hair is gray, ty, The convents's white walls glisten : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's... | |
| Sir Erasmus Wilson - 1854 - 474 pages
...durable than brass, an instance of the gradual conversion of the hair to gray : — "My hair is gray, but not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears." Prisoner of Chilian. A lady of some literary eminence, to whom I related the foregoing instance of... | |
| 1854 - 456 pages
...none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. My hair is gray, but not with years j Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose ; For they have been a dungeon's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...Bonnivard ! ' — May none those marks efface ! far they appeal from tyranny to God. Mr hair is gray, bat not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,' As men's hare grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowM, though not with toil, Bnt rusted with a rile repose,... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface . For they appeal from tyranny to God, MY hair is gray, but not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night. As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose ; For they have been a dungeon's... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. MY hair is gray, but not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose ; For they have been a dungeon's... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 410 pages
...out of the pinings of despair. The copyright was purchased for 500 guineas. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,i As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted... | |
| 1855 - 838 pages
...more durable than brass, an instance of the gradual conversion of the hair to gray: " My hair is gray, but not with years; Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's h*ve grown from sudden fears." A lady of some literary eminence, to whom I related the foregoing instance... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 588 pages
...listening without interrupting. 80 that, at the very commencement, when the reader read the passage, "Nor grew It white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears," the listener interposed as follows : "White! How odd, to be sure ! Well, I know nothing about men's... | |
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