 I RODE one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze...  Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 5by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1917 - 800 pages
...evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land that breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice .... The tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon...ride while day went down. This ride was my delight .... . . - . . With a remembered friend I love To ride as then I rode; — for the winds drove The... | |
 | František Adolf Šubert - 1917 - 136 pages
...evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land that breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice .... The tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon...ride while day went down. This ride was my delight .... . . . . With a remembered friend I love To ride as then I rode; — for the winds drove The living... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1915 - 278 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped with ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, 5 Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes n A narrow space of level sand thereon, Where 'twas our wont to ride while day went down. This ride... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1924 - 440 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...thereon, Where 'twas our wont to ride while day went downThis ride was my delight. I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shitting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...Where 'twas our wont to ride while day went down. (Shelley, Julian and Maddalo 1 ff.) And with light lips yet full of their swift smile, And hands that... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand. Matted with thisdes and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds....The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes 10 Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon, Where 'twas our... | |
 | Margaret Plant - 2002 - 576 pages
...bare Strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...dried, Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste . . .2'4 In the early nineteenth century writers endowed the Lido with a special atmosphere. The melancholy... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 432 pages
...Lido, where he and Maddalo are accustomed to riding — is all but devoid of bodies, an uninhabitable sea-side Which the lone fisher, when his nets are...dwarf tree, and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired. (11. 7-n)60 As Julian confides to the reader, I love all waste And solitary places, where we taste... | |
 | 1861 - 590 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...Where 'twas our wont to ride while day went down." We find ourselves at once on the Lido of Venice, nowhere else but there. Further on we have a Venetian... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1960 - 248 pages
...bare strand Of hillocks, heaped with ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, 5 Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds,...few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes n A narrow space of level sand thereon, Where 'twas our wont to ride while day went down. This ride... | |
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