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 poetical works of lord Byron. Illustr. ed - Page 405by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...each hand : 1 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...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... | |
| 1818 - 598 pages
...each hand : 1 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...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... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Wljere Venice sate in state, Jhron'd pn her hundred isles... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...each hand : 1 saw from out tbe wave her structures rise . As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : 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 , thron'd on her hundred isles!... | |
| 1834 - 614 pages
...hand ; 1 saw from out the waves her structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand, — A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...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 !... | |
| 1819 - 884 pages
...each hand: I sav/ from out the wave her structures rise As from tie stroke of die enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...• . * 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!"... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...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...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! 4 She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...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...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... | |
| 1822 - 206 pages
...Looked to tbe winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A rnler of tbe waters and their powers : And such she wns ; — tier daughters bad their dowers From... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...each hand ; I saw from out the wave her struetures rise As from the stroke of the enehanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a suhjeet land Look'd to the winged Lion's marhle piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hund,... | |
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