 This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise...  Johnson's First-[fifth] Reader ... - Page 40edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...shell lire progressively vacated, find these are successively partitioned off into air-tight chambers. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails...wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the sireu sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...memory of what has been, And never more will be. William Wordsworth. * I7I. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main ; The venturous barque that flings On the sweet summer wind its purple wings In gulfs enchanted, where the syren sings... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1881 - 1078 pages
...alter their rate of going, what would the world give for the discovery ? ##THE CHAMBERED NAUTII/US. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — rThe venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...shell, which is built in a widening spiral. Can you find no lesson in this ? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. ,' This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign. Sails...the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl I And every chambered cell,... | |
 | Sea poetry - 1882 - 284 pages
...victories are o'er ; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave no more. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. 'T^HIS is the ship of pearl which, poets feign, -^...the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl,— Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...shell me progressively vacated, and these are successively partitioned uff into air-tight chambers. e, but with sweet difference, inethinks, Ноге...Thoughts crowd about us with the trees : the shade Holds Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 436 pages
...this? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.l This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the uushadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet...the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell,... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. II.— THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. i. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,...The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer win4 its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...tranquilly, Through the bending twigs of the coral grove. JAMES GATES PERCITAL. (f I] iimb m!> Nautilus. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous hark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purple wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American wit and humor - 1882 - 350 pages
...shell, which is built in a widening spiral. Can you find no lesson in this ? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.' This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturons bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the... | |
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