 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843
...Their country conquers with their martyrdojn,4 And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place*. And thy sad floor an altar — for 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
 | 1843
...action of footsteps. No poetic license has therefore been taken in the forcible lines — " Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar...cold pavement were a sod — By Bonnivard ! May none these marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God I" The pillar thus connected with Bonnivard's... | |
 | 1844
...conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon : thy pi i mi i> a holy place. And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod, Until his very stepa have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavements were a tod, By Bonnivard ! — may none those... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 504 sidor
...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 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 548 sidor
...Duke of Savoy ! Of this relic of human ferocity Byron sung in melancholy strains : — " Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar...trace, Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonuivard ! May none these marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God." A pillar to which this... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1846
...following lines are taken : — Boute 56.— Chillón— Villeneuve — Rhone Valley. 167 " Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar ; for 't was trod Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if the cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1846
...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 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 764 sidor
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillón! ron Ч »a« trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were л sod, By... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 504 sidor
...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 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846
...Their country conquers wilh their martyrdom. And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar— ftir 'I was trod, dans le chitcau de Chillón, où il resta sans être interrogé ju». qu'en 1836;... | |
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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... 
