venice - Popular Poems and stories from category

Numb, half asleep, and dazed with whirl of wheels,
And gasp of steam, and measured clank of chains,
I heard a blithe voice break a sudden pause,
Ringing familiarly through the lamp-lit night, "Wife, here's your Venice

A click of window glass had roused me Out of my sleep at early dawn
Beneath me Venice swam in water;
A sodden pretzel made of stone
I was all quiet now; however,

Water and marble and that
Which is not broken by a wheel or hoof;
A city like a water-lily,
Seen than reflected, palace wall and roof,