 | George Oliver - 1867 - 568 pages
...delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." — SOLOMON. " There are seven pillars of gothic mould In Chillon's dungeons deep and old, There are seven columns, massy and gray, Dim with a dull imprisoned ray, — A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...dungeon wall and wave Have made— and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day : Sounding o'er our heads t knock'd ; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1868 - 236 pages
...correspondence between his description and the reality. The teacher quoted the lines. They were these : — " In Chillon's dungeons, deep and old, There are seven columns, massy and gray, Dim with a dull, imprisoned ray — A sunbeam that hath lost its way, And through the crevice... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day ; Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd ; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it knocked; And I have felt the winter's sprayWash through the bars when winds... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 768 pages
...were in a dungeon cast, Of whom this wreck is left the last. There are seven pillars of Gothic mould, The vaults sunl>eam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...dungeon wall and wave Have made, — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark rain ; And the smiles and the tears, the song and tl« dir ; Sounding o'er our heads it knocked ; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bare when... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...double dungeon wall and wave Have made—and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day ; And then the very rock hath rock'd, And I have felt it shake, unshock'd, • The Chateau de Chillón... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave Below the surface of the lake 115 The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day ; Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd ; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...double dungeon wall and wave Have made—and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple, night and day; And then the very rock hath rock'd, And I have felt it shake, unshock'd, Because I could have smiled... | |
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A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it... 
