 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...  Poems - Page 579by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 658 pages
...had lately given a new life to its glories, and sung of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly: ' 1 stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs; ' A palace...marble piles, ' Where Venice sat in state, throned in her hundred isles.' But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene might, under other circumstances,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 362 pages
...ever, Your obliged And affectionate friend, BYRON. CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO THE FOURTH. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; (') A...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, [isles ! Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred ii. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1833 - 252 pages
...reader is left to judge for himself. THE BRAVO. CHAPTER L " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sigha, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." BnoN. THE sun had disappeared... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 388 pages
...had lately given a newlife to its glories, and sung of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly: — " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise Aa from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and... | |
 | 1834 - 604 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 382 pages
...lately given a new life to its glories, and sung of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly : — " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned in her hundred isles." But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene might, under other circumstances,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...immediate object of the present article. The poem opens in Venice, once the mart of the universe — " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, 'Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles !" The former greatness of this queen of commerce is described... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...ever, Your obliged And affectionate friend, BYRON. CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO THE FOURTH. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; (') A...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, [isles ! Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred ii. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1836 - 486 pages
...have been obnoxious to this proof, the reader is left to judge for himself. THE BRAVO. CHAPTER I. " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." BYRON. THE sun had... | |
 | Paul Rodgers - 1836 - 232 pages
...accounts given of it in English travellers, let me tell them it is well worthy of their attention" I stood in Venice, on the bridge of sighs ; A palace...the wave her structures rise, As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand ; A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles... | |
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