 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...  Money and Morals: A Book for the Times - Page 268by John Lalor - 1852 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...Byron — " I saw from out the -wave a structure riso As from the stroke of tbe enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...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."... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards, Edwards Amasa Park - Bible - 1853 - 516 pages
...council-chamber where the ' most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors ' were once met, and " Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles." We sailed every day in the gondolas, and we have brought away one in our trunk. We sailed one day to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 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 Oe.- the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...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...to the winged Lion's * marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Kising with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 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...Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! ii. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, 2 Rising... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...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...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! П. She looks a sca-Cybelc fresh from ocean Rising with... | |
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 662 pages
...wings expand Around me, and a dyin.,' glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land 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 propriety in commencing his poem ; because... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Venice (Italy) - 1854 - 296 pages
...rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Aiound me, and 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."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 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...Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene... | |
 | 1855 - 540 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 Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.... | |
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