Project Gutenberg on Nostr: "My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's ...

"My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night,
As men's have grown from sudden fears:..."

#OTD in 1816.

Lord Byron's The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems is published in London. John Murray, his publisher, is able to sell 7,000 copies of this and of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (published November 18) to booksellers at a dinner this month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Chillon

The Prisoner of Chillon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20158

#books #literature #poetry