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... Cities of Northern and Central Italy - Page 3by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876Full view - About this book
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs;* A pal. ice and a prison on each band : I saw from out the WBTB her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles. Where Venice sale in stale, throned on her hundred isles ! II. She looks a tea Cybele, fresh from ocean,' Ailing... | |
| 734 pages
...corruption packing Parliament.«. PAISLEY MAGAZINE. PART i, No. 12. DEC. 1, 1828. VOL. I. • AN EVENING IN VENICE. I saw from out the wave her structures rise,...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles.... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...burial blent ! VENICE. 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...expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far limes, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...January i, 1818. I. I STOOO in Venice, on the Bridge of Sigh»;t 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 Iheir cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles Oer the far limes, when many » subject... | |
| George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...palace and the prison : 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 « ami : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, aud a dying Glory smiles O'er the tar... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...the city. Gibbon. 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. Byron'i Childe Harolde. BR i DC E, in architecture, is awork either of stone, timber, or iron, consisting... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 576 pages
...Sea thus grandly : " 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...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene might, under other circumstances, have inspired... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 594 pages
...palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand. A thousand years their cloudy wings...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. BYRON. AMID the thousand romantic associations with which Venice teems, there are none possessing a... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 pages
...Sea thus grandly : I stood ÍD V ire on the Bridge of Sighs ; Л palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from...years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying gloty smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 528 pages
...enchanter'» wand : A thousand year* their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory gmiles Thee, my God, to Thee I call 1 Whatever weal or woe betide, By thy command I rise or fall, In thy late in state, throned on her bundred Ules. But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene... | |
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