 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
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 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, throned on her hundred isles... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 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 me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, where many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 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 ! II. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean. Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,... | |
 | James Henry Coghill - Europe - 1868 - 338 pages
...each hand: I 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...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." We felt a sense of relief upon getting out into the sunshine again. After walking around the square,... | |
 | James O'Donnell Bennett - Books and reading - 1928 - 488 pages
...each hand: I 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...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers Epigram he flung about... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 186 pages
...hand : I saw from out the wave her structure rise As from the stroke of .< , \. Enchanter's wand : A thousand Years their cloudy wings expand Around...piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her Seventy Isles. The ' Bridge of Sighs ' (ie Ponte del sospirf) is that which divides, or rather joins,... | |
 | Sir George Newman - Citizenship - 1928 - 274 pages
...free republic. I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the Enchanters wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles. Virgil made Aeneas enter Rome by the Tiber which it bestrides,... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - English poetry - 1928 - 582 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, throned on her hundred isles... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Biography - 1928 - 392 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, throned on her hundred isles!... | |
 | Grace Gaige - Europe - 1928 - 184 pages
...on each hand; I saw from out the wave her structure 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, throned on her hundred isles.... | |
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