 It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count, I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free; 370 I asked not why, and recked not where ; It was at length the same to me,...  Literature and Life ... - Page 24edited by - 1922Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...sought to save, And yet my glance, too much opprest, Had almost need of such a rest. XIV. It might he months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took...their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me, Fetter'd or fetterless to be,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...was as is a new-dug grave, Closing o'er one we sought to save. 8. At last men came to set us free, I asked not why, and recked not where ; It was at...love despair. And thus, when they appeared at last, And all my bonds aside were cast, These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage, — and all my own!... | |
 | Victor von Arentsschild - English poetry - 1851 - 588 pages
...we sought to nave, — And yet my glance, too much oppresti'd, Had almost need of such a rest. 14. It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count...their dreary mote, At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the «ame to me, Ketter'd or fetterless to... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...o'er one we sought to save, And yet my glance, too much oppress'd, Had almost need of such a rest. It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count,...their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me, Fetter'd or fetterless to be,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1853 - 486 pages
...toads be musical) have sung those touching lines at the close of ' The Prisoner of Chillon : ' — " It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count...their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me Fettered or fetterless to be,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...poem concludes with an account of Bonnivar<fs liberation from the dungeon. w. THE CAPTIVE is SET FREE. It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count...their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me, Fetter'd or fetterless to be,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...o'er one we sought to save, — And yet my glance, too much oppress'd, Had almost need of such a rest. It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count...their dreary mote; At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me, Fetter'd or fetterless to be,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...recent chain. THE PRISONER or CIIILLON. MAZEPPA'S RIDE. 91 THE LIBERATION OF THE PRISONER. — «• — IT might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count...their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me, Fetter'd or fetterless to be,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...o'er one we sought to save, And yet my glance, too much opprest, Had almost need of such a rest. XIV. boy his sire shall ne'er embrace, None stand by his...awed and awes mankind ; Smile — for the fettcr'd I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me, Fetter'd or fetterless to be,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...one we sought tj save, And yet my glance, too mu;:h oppressed, Had almost need of such a rest. XIV. It might be months, or years, or days, — I kept...their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free, — I asked not why, and recked not where, It was at length the same to me Fettered or fetterless to... | |
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