 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - History - 1999 - 268 pages
...passed away.1 contrasts with the more personal and passionate effusion of Byron in his "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?2 In Byron's poem of 1818, with its... | |
 | Margaret Doody - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 386 pages
...grudging generosity to admit that this inevitable disappearance will cause regret in some quarters: Oh Venice! Venice! When thy marble walls Are level...sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea! ("Ode," lines I — J-) We may take Byron as an initial point in the procession of doom-laden prophecies... | |
 | Judith Martin - History - 2007 - 344 pages
...save Venice, the mood is set for: Oh, Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the water, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea! John Ruskin Hardly anyone is more popular as an imaginary friend than the great Victorian art critic... | |
 | Robert L. France - Science - 2007 - 488 pages
...in Ode to Venice, he continues with this theme of the inevitable: "Oh Venice! Oh Venice! When they marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nation's o'er they sunken halls A loud lament along the weeping sea!" 1 An expanded version of this... | |
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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! 
