!* Sighs of the Heart ♥ Sospiri del Cuore ♥
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What was planned as a simple shot of Dedo sewing...turned
into yet another "de-Tucker♥ de-saster." He's been here 6 mos.
tomorrow... looks like he's staying, no matter how much
trouble he might be♥ ....sigh...
Thought I would share.
(1 of 5)
No pictures.......please
I want to sleep.......
Unfortunately my lovely friend Alfie
has passed away ♱ on August 5th 2021
San Juan de Ulúa , Veracruz , Mexico
The "Bridge of Sighs" is so named because he who crossed it as a prisoner knew that he had little opportunity to cross it again as a free man.
This week a little tour for my city, seven photos from Barcelona, in the series "Barcelona winds...".
Morning everyone & have a fantastic Wednesday!
Ponte dei Sospiri
Seufzerbrücke
You get scolded at home if you come back from Venice without having taken a photo of the Bridge of Sighs. Of course, I don't want to get scolded.
Venice Italy
Why is the Bridge of Sighs so famous?
The Bridge of Sighs is famous for its function. On the bridge, prisoners were brought back to prison after the trial and sentencing in the Doge's Palace. Many people were sentenced to very long prison terms or the death penalty. The most famous inmate at the prison was Casanova.
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This bridge connects the old and the new quadrangles at Hertford College and it is really called Hertford Bridge. It was completed in 1914, after a design by Sir Thomas Jackson - and if it is inspired by any Venetian bridge it is rather the Rialto one.
..."And just as my eyes start seeing
After all the pain
The twist in my life starts healing
Just to twist again
In stillness, in sorrow
Returns that softly sighing lament"...
Lament
- Ultravox
In a sigh the word trembled, the memory took a heartbeat as a home, the afternoon was accompanied by memories.
Moon.
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri, Venetian: Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contino, whose uncle Antonio da Ponte designed the Rialto Bridge. It was built in 1600.
The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's English name was bequeathed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri", from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.
Flowers have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings,
not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of
the mind. They dissolve its vigor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
"The constant sigh
and
last long
whisper
of
the soul"
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Bamboo whispers ...
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"Whispering winds softly sighing, daylight dying,
Stars through the low-bending heavens slowly creep;
Fluttering wings of the angels swift descending,
Beautiful chorals awaking earth from sleep"
-Lizzie DeArmond, 1906
Merry Christmas!
(Acadia National Park, Maine)