 | Durrant Thorpe - Africa - 1907 - 304 pages
...inspiration to artists, architects and poets 2jth " than any other city of the world can boast of. Steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream,...stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky; By many a pile in more than eastern splendour, Of old the residence of merchant-kings; The fronts of... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Electronic journals - 1908 - 808 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea. Invisible ; and from the land we went As to a floating City — steering...stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile in more than Eastern pride, Of old the residence of merchant-kings ; The fronts of... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering...stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile in more than eastern pride, Of old the residence of merchant-kings ; The fronts of... | |
 | Richard Ellis Roberts - London (England) - 1910 - 356 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating City — steering...stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile in more than Eastern pride, Of old the residence of merchant kings ; The fronts of... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1911 - 400 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates ! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible : and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering...stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky; By many a pile, in more than Eastern pride, Of old the residence of merchant kings; The fronts of some,... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley - California - 1918 - 680 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible; and from the land we went. As to a floating City, —...stately portico. The statues ranged along an azure sky; By many a pile in more than Eastern splendor, Of old the residence of merchant kings; The fronts of... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Art objects - 1913 - 456 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible; and from the land we went, As to a floating City — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, erations to come, its peculiar beauty will have an undying memorial so long as the work of Canaletto... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating City, —...as in a dream, So smoothly, silently, — by many a donw DESCRIPTIVK POEMS. ROME. FKOM " ITALY." Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - Business & Economics - 1968 - 542 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea Invisible ; and from the land we went As to a floating city — steering...and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along the azure sky ; By many a pile in more than Eastern-pride Of old the residence of merchant kings."... | |
 | Mark Twain - Literary Collections - 1984 - 1078 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went. As to a floating city — steering...stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky; By many a pile, in more than Eastern pride, Of old the residence of merchant kings; The fronts of some,... | |
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THERE is a glorious City in the Sea. The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea,... 
