 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 302 pages
...Bequeath'd the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but one! '7* 1814. Lord Byron. ODE ON VENICE OH Venice ! Venice ! when thy marble walls Are level...sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea! If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do? — anything but weep; And yet they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...'T is to be wish'd it had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when begun. ODE ON VENICE " I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do? — anything but weep: And yet they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...it had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when begun. ODE ON VENICE OH Venice t Venice I modern mansions in their pillar'd state; Proudly majestic I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do ? — anything but 452 453 i contrast... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when begun. ODE ON VENICE I OH Venice ! Venice I t deep in the gore he has pour d. Though black as...corrupted to mud, Yet this is the dew Which the tree sha I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do ? — anything but weep: And yet they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...the slime, The dull green ooze of the receding deep, Is with the dashing of the spring-tide foam, 1o Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, That drives the sailor shipless to his home, Are they to those that were; and thus they creep, Crouching... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...wisn'd it had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when began. ODE ON VENICE I OH Venice I Venice ! when thy marble walls Are level with the -waters, there shall t» A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping se» I If I, a northern... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Italy - 1906 - 488 pages
...carcase back to your soil. I would not even feed your worms, if I could help it. ODE ON VENICE I 0 Venice ! Venice ! when thy marble walls Are level...sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea ! If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do ? — anything but weep : And yet they... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...a long communion tends 390 To make us what we are: — even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh. ODE Oh Venice ! Venice ! when thy marble walls Are level...sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea l If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do? — any thing but weep: And yet... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 170 pages
...the especial love of great English poets. Compare Byron's more elaborate Odt on Venice, beginning, " Oh Venice! Venice ! when thy marble walls Are level...sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea ! " I STOOD in Venice, on the " Bridge of Sighs " ; A Palace and a Prison on each hand : I saw from... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English letters - 1907 - 486 pages
...carcase back to your soil. I would not even feed your worms, if I could help it. ODE ON VENICE I O "Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with...sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea ! If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do ? — anything but weep : And yet they... | |
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Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea! 
