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Subject: CHILLON CASTLE, SWITZERLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LAKE LEMAN AND CHILLON, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the old genevan wharf she lay
Last Line: By a guest with a bad digestion!
Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE CASTLE OF CHILLON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore
Last Line: The heart thy fuel, and the grave thy shrine.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE PRISONER OF CHILLON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hair is gray, but not with years
Last Line: Regained my freedom with a sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): On Chillon
Subject(s): Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Switzerland; Tragedy; Swiss


THE PRISONER OF CHILLON: INTRODUCTORY SONNET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternal spirit of the chainless mind!
Last Line: For they appeal from tyranny to god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Freedom's Hero;on The Castle Of Chillon;sonnet On Chillon;on Chillon
Subject(s): Chillon Castle, Switzerland