 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 - Sida 94efter George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sidor
...Canto IV.] 221 I. 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...Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pues, Where Venice sate m state, throned on her hundred isles 1... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 sidor
...Byron 'A DYING GLORY' 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...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 sidor
...affectionate friend, BYRON. 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: 5 A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times,... | |
 | Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 sidor
...Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand." The original stanza continues: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! The grimmer reality of Venice is masked by its beautiful, blushing facades, and this idea Turner sought... | |
 | Rictor Norton - 1999 - 329 sidor
...Venice in Childe HaroldI 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: She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with... | |
 | Janet Gleeson - 2001 - 300 sidor
...stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the waves her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto the fourth I AW ALWAYS RELISHED PLAYING THE MAN OF MYSTERY.... | |
 | P. J. O'Rourke - 2007 - 292 sidor
...— heir to Byzantium, progenitor of Marco Polo, patron of Titian, and inspiration to Lord Byron, who Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! And they should get that winged lion treated, because marble piles sound very painful. Anyway, there... | |
 | Drummond Bone - 2004 - 340 sidor
...of Sighs in Venice: 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...winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles! (CHP, i v.1) The image of civilization's ambiguous structures (both beautiful... | |
 | George Dekker - 2005 - 342 sidor
...Mysteries of Udolpho: 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. As is typical of Cantos III and IV, the "I" of the poem makes no gradual entry to his principal station... | |
 | Jonah Siegel - 2005 - 308 sidor
...characteristic confusion: 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...expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far time, when the many subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state,... | |
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