 | Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
...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...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! The grimmer reality of Venice is masked by its beautiful,... | |
 | Janet Gleeson - 2001 - 300 pages
...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...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto the fourth I... | |
 | Drummond Bone - 2004 - 340 pages
...view that dominates Canto 1v. The canto opens with the famous image of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice: I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...Look'd to the 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... | |
 | George Dekker - 2005 - 342 pages
...Canto IV opens with a phrase borrowed from a famous description of Venice in The Mysteries of Udolpho: I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...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 pages
...published in 1818. Indeed, the most famous solecism in the poem is shaped by a characteristic confusion: I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...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,... | |
 | John Gunn - 2006 - 214 pages
...lost in darkness, and I bless them as I leave My Sussex cattle feeding in the dew! Practice for "I" I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles! Ida had her eiderdown dyed violet. There were five prizes,... | |
 | Susanne Dunlap - 2007 - 353 pages
...dressing table, ran her fingers over the pebbly morocco, opened it reverently, and turned a few pages. I stood in Venice, on the bridge of Sighs; A palace...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles! Liszt had told her that the poems would help her understand... | |
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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... 
