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" 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 142
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 49

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 690 pages
...the slope, And whelmed both love and sun within the deep ; DREAM OF VENICE. EY A.OEETLOCK, ESO.. ' A THOUSAND years their cloudy wings expand Around me ; and a dying plory smiles O'er the far times when many a subject land Looked to the wlng6d lion's marble piles Where...
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A Guide to the Cathedrals of England and Wales: Their History, Architecture ...

Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1858 - 168 pages
...hundred towns and villages of England ; and jurisdiction over the river from Staines to Gravesend. A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles Over the far times. On every account this church has a paramount claim on our regard — as a rich...
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Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century

Kenneth Meyer Setton - 1991 - 520 pages
...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...piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. . . . In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless Gondolier;...
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The Argonaut, Volume 5

1875 - 398 pages
...a prison on each han_d ; I s aw, from out the waves, her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand. A thousand years their cloudy wings...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles."...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the trampled By human passions to a human chaos, Not yet...elements— T is waning still t And can the san so rise, Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pues, Where Venice sate m state, throned on her hundred isles 1...
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated ...

Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 572 pages
...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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles!...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...each hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: 5 A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!...
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Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History

Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
...The original stanza continues: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!...
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Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

Janet Gleeson - 2001 - 300 pages
...palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the waves her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!...
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The CEO of the Sofa

P. J. O'Rourke - 2007 - 292 pages
...to Byzantium, progenitor of Marco Polo, patron of Titian, and inspiration to Lord Byron, who Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! And they should get that winged lion treated, because marble piles sound very painful....
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