place
Charles Bridge
the stone bridge
also: steinerne Brücke, Karlův most
The old stone bridge over the Vltava, lined with statues, joining the Old Town to the Lesser Town.
Reading notes
- Early Poems §4 the bridge
The Charles Bridge, whose parapets are lined with Baroque statues of saints that here 'look gravely down' on the river and castle.
- Early Poems §83 Charles Bridge
The medieval stone bridge over the Vltava in Prague; the war's last fighting reached it in 1648, so the poem has the war 'die' there at thirty.
- Two Stories of Prague §34 stone bridge
The Charles Bridge (Karlův most), the statue-lined stone bridge over the Vltava.