 | Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857 - 356 pages
...Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent vowa the songless gondolier. Her palaces are crumbling on the shore, And music meets not always now the ear...arts fade — but nature doth not die. Nor yet forget that Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - 1857 - 284 pages
...looking to the past : — " A ruler of the waters and their powers." Indeed she was. But now : — " In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore." Venice was commenced by her builders as a city of refuge, like Rome. It dates from 407-13, when Alaric... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increaied. Ш. ron Byron arc crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but Beauty... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 pages
...dcem'd their dignity increased. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songlcss gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore,...days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fali, arls fade — but Nature doth not d'r: Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 252 pages
...In purole was she rohed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. in. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, (') And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumhling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — hut heauty... | |
 | Marine botany - 1861 - 140 pages
...ancient city, beneath the shadows of whose crumbling palaces grows unheeded the elegant Griffithsiana. "In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent...are gone— but beauty still is here. States fall and fade — but Nature does not die. Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...purple was she robed, and of her feast Monorchs partook, and decm'd their dignity in creased. III. In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more,' And silent...ear : Those days are gone — but beauty still is heroStates fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die : Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The... | |
 | Henry Willis Baxley - 1865 - 660 pages
...Adriatic, on whose waveless canals he now floats, knows not the abounding loveliness of this retreat. " In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...music meets not always now the ear; Those days are gone—hut beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade—but Nature doth not die." • In this tropical... | |
 | Henry Willis Baxley - 1865 - 646 pages
...Adriatic, on whose waveless canals he now floats, knows not the abounding loveliness of this retreat. . " In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...music meets not always now the ear; Those days are gone—but beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade—~but Nature doth not die." In this tropical... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1866 - 138 pages
...showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Honarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. " In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone—but beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade, but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how... | |
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In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear, Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth... 
