"Chainless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore; In life and death, a chainless soul With courage ...
— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz
... no doubt that at this time the physical condition of the blacks was generally much better in slavery than it was in freedom. What stronger testimony to the innate desire for liberty—what Byron has described as "The eternal spirit of the chainless mind"—than the fact that slaves who were the most indulgently treated, were constantly escaping from the easy and careless life they led to the hostilities and barbarities of the free States, and they never went ...
— The Abolitionists - Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights • John F. Hume
... like the moon, herself behind a cloud, They shed down light before us on life's sea, That cheers us to steer onward still in hope. Earth with her twining memories ivies o'er Their holy sepulchres; the chainless sea, 180 In tempest or wide calm, repeats their thoughts; The lightning and the thunder, all free things, Have legends of them for the ears of men. All other glories are as falling stars, But universal Nature watches theirs: 185 Such strength is won ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell |
