Venice - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481<![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60482<![CDATA[In Venice, Tass's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60478<![CDATA[Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60479<![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480<![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477