I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er... The works, of ... lord Byron - Page 7by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Full view - About this book
| England - 1818 - 762 pages
...Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I mw from out the wave her structures rise A* from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand...their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory suiUes O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion'i marble piles. When... | |
| 1818 - 598 pages
...I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the...Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles f The former greatness of this queen of commerce is described and mingled with the recollections associated... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs-; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Wljere Venice sate in state, Jhron'd pn her hundred isles ! 2. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out the wave her structures riseAs from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand...wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er ihe far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate... | |
| 1818 - 428 pages
...enchanter'* wand: A thousand years Iheir cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory e mi lea O'er ibe far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice eat in slate, thron'd eu her hundred isles." REFLECTIONS OX THE » 1 It OF VEMCF. " Before St. Mark... | |
| 1819 - 884 pages
...palace and a prison on each hand: I sav/ from out the wave her structures rise As from tie stroke of die enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings...Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles!" „Sie ehemalige ©r5fie ber A&nigin bee £anbetS wirb unb roifii)t fid) in bie Srinncrungen, »ergefelifdjaftet... | |
| 1834 - 614 pages
...STOOD at Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; 1 saw from out the waves her structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...' I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wing* expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; r A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the...Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles ! II. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,... | |
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