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 - Página 405por George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 páginas
...purpose to which the bridge was formerly devoted that procured it the pathetic name it bears. VENICE. 27 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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 páginas
...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!... | |
| Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 páginas
...stroke of the enchanter's wnnd : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dyin.,' glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject...Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles." " The lyre of Byron," it has been said, " has a peculiar... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 páginas
...out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years thoir cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory 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!... | |
| 1855 - 540 páginas
...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. JL WILLIAMS. But unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story, and her long array Of mighty shadows,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 páginas
...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."... | |
| Edward Young - 1856 - 536 páginas
...Says Byron — u I saw from out the wave a structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...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." Rogers more... | |
| John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 páginas
...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... | |
| 1857 - 336 páginas
...world of nature. He stood in the Adriatic City, and its ancient splendour rose to his vision : — "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 !" He beheld the Eternal City, the " Childless and crownless,... | |
| 1857 - 904 páginas
...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...land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles Where Tenice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles." The Lion, the State symbol of Venice, still looks... | |
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