 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
 | 1855 - 540 pages
...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...smiles O'er the far times when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.... | |
 | John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 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...winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! " She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Bising with her tiara of... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 pages
...ravish'd from the deep ! 774. Some: Namely,- Venice. Says Byron — u I saw from out the wave a structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand :...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the wing'd lion's marble piles, "Where Venice sat in state, throned ou her hundred isles."... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 556 pages
...ravish'd from the deep 1 774. Some : Namely, Venice. Says Byron — " I saw from out the wave a structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand :...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the wing'd lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - Adventure and adventurers - 1857 - 284 pages
...if he stood 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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Leoni marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."... | |
 | Kenneth Meyer Setton - Austria - 1991 - 520 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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...stood in Venice, on the 'Bridge of Sighs'; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out of the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the Enchanter's wand. Ckilde HaTold'x Pilgrimage opening of Canto 4 254 That soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs — A palace and a prison on each han_d ; I s aw, 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." Whilst gently gliding... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the eace and hope, And love and ravel, in an hour were...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... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - Authors, English - 1996 - 572 pages
...GLORY' 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...Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with... | |
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