On The Castle Of Chillon - Lord Byron

209 On The Castle Of Chillon
The two-hundred and ninth poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

Bonnivard, a Genevese, was imprisoned by the Duke of Savoy in Chillon on the lake of Geneva for his courageous defence of his country against the tyranny with which Piedmont threatened it during the first half of the seventeenth century. This noble Sonnet is worthy to stand near Milton's on the Vaudois massacre.