She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers... The works, of ... lord Byron - Side 7af George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Düsseldorf Gallery (New York, N.Y.) - 1851 - 98 sider
...man of lago's rank for her waiting woman I a noble lady of that queenly city, of whom Byron says, *' Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured into her lap all gems in sparkling showers, In purple was she robed,; and of her feast - ,-.-.... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 sider
...Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,...showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increaee.l. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent... | |
| John Lalor - 1852 - 368 sider
...Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles ! " She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,...showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. " In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent... | |
| Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 sider
...perfectly delighted, and could realize BYRON'S glowing poetry : " She looks a sea-Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A rnler of the waters and their powers ; And such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 490 sider
...her " dead doges,' her crumbling ruins, and deserted commerce What a contrast with that state, when " her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Four'd in her lap all gems or sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of the feast Monarchs... | |
| James Henry - 1853 - 626 sider
...to the turret- crowned Cybele is one of a different kind: "She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising -with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance...dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers: In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 sider
...truly I am ever Your obliged and affectionate friend, BYRON. She looks a sea-Cybele, fresh from ocean Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,...powers And such she was ; — her daughters had their dowenr From spoils of nations, and the exhvistless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.... | |
| James Henry - 1853 - 616 sider
...she was : — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers: In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased;" the resemblance in the case of this comparison... | |
| James Aspinall - 1853 - 90 sider
...artist hi it : " She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At aii? distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : Aod such she was :— Her daughters had their d iwers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 sider
...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Kising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with...showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent... | |
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