 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: Childe Harold's pilgrimage - Page 87by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around him, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far timea when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where VENICE sat in state, throned on her hundred isles." PHI. SONG OF TIME. I COME, I come, and my locks are white,... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 pages
...RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1813. TITIAN. CHAPTER I. D'ALVAINE'S TRIUMPH IN THE BUCENTAUR. A dying Glory 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 Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. VENICE. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean, Rising with her... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Politicians - 1844 - 414 pages
...had that further acquaintance so fatal to most beauties. * I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : Venice is an exquisite courtezan. Whilst you gaze upon those beauties which first present themselves,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...the Bridge of Sighi ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I «a«r from out the ware her structure! rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand :...years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glorj smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged llon'i marble piles.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1844 - 780 pages
...Bridge of Sight ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I taw from out the wave her structure! rile AJ from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wing., expand Around mo, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...— Churches. — Tomb of Canova. — Moonlight View. " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles !" THE glorious old Church of St. Mark, so intimately associated with every thought of Venice, was... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...love, We lose ourselves in heaven above. KEBLE. VENICE. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs1 ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. VENICE. 1 STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean, Rising with her... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...affectionate friend, BYRON. Venict, January 2, 1818. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; ' ing shrine, And bear these altars o'er the long- reluctant...modern PicVs ignoble boast, To rive what Goth, and Cyhelc, fresh from ocean, * Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion,... | |
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