 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: Complete in One Volume - Page 38by George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 776 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rictor Norton - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 329 pages
...proof of imitation.8 But Byron's description of the magical city of Venice in Childe HaroldI stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a...structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with... | |
 | Janet Gleeson - Business & Economics - 2001 - 300 pages
...stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the waves her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto... | |
 | Drummond Bone - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 340 pages
...dominates Canto 1v. The canto opens with the famous image of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice: I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles! (CHP, i v.1) The image of civilization's... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 342 pages
...opens with a phrase borrowed from a famous description of Venice in The Mysteries of Udolpho: I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a...structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand. As is typical of Cantos III and IV, the "I" of the poem makes no gradual entry to his principal station... | |
 | Jonah Siegel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...1818. Indeed, the most famous solecism in the poem is shaped by a characteristic confusion: I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a...expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far time, when the many subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state,... | |
 | John Gunn - Drama - 2006 - 214 pages
...darkness, and I bless them as I leave My Sussex cattle feeding in the dew! Practice for "I" I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles! Ida had her eiderdown dyed violet. There were... | |
 | Susanne Dunlap - Fiction - 2007 - 353 pages
...table, ran her fingers over the pebbly morocco, opened it reverently, and turned a few pages. I stood in Venice, on the bridge of Sighs; A palace and a...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles! Liszt had told her that the poems would help... | |
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