 | Margaret Plant - History - 2002 - 576 pages
...palaces. No track of man, no footsteps to and fro Lead to her gates. The path o'er the Sea, Invisible; and from the land we went As to a floating city - steering...up her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently . . .2 0 Such a journey suggests the crossing of Lethe or that to the island of Cythera and the dream... | |
 | Rosalie Hook - Art - 2006 - 360 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...her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently. ("Venice," Italy) The haunting sense of unreality in a city where you glide rather than walk, where... | |
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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,... 
