 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
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Religious poetry - 1885 - 1148 pages
...cherish, Rebuke the destroyer: "Help, Lord, or we perish ! " REGINALD HEDEK. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails...flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings Ingulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Its webs of living gauze no more... | |
 | Leila G. Bedell - 1885 - 72 pages
...Mary, I have written something better than I can write /" And he read her his CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. " This is the ship of pearl which, poets feign, Sails...venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purple wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold Sea-maids... | |
 | Henry Marlin Soper - 1880 - 152 pages
...my life, I 've not the proper spirit of a wife I THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. BY OLIVER W. HOLMES. ITils is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the...bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled winga In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1861 - 460 pages
..."Atlantic Monthly." Let the reader take in his hand a pearly Nautilus cut through the middle, and say — This is the Ship of Pearl, which, poets feign. Sails...the siren sings, . And coral reefs lie bare; Where cold sea-maids rise, to sun their streaming hair. Its web of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked... | |
 | Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...and the soul of man, building ever more stately mansions. . . . He was carried by his own fantasy. 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! And every chambered cell, Where... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...charm the ear with numbers half divine. Oliver Wendell Holmes ( I 809- I 894) 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! And every chambered cell, Where... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...widening spiraL Can you find no lesson in this? 94 Famous Poems from Bygone Days The Chamhered 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 purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...globe; 35 But when you see that blessed day, Then order your ascension robe! 1857 THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails...flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings 5 In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...aught that was bright in my story, 1 knew it was love, and I felt it was glory. Oliver Wendell Holmes 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! And every chambered cell, Where... | |
 | Rachel R. Baum - Social Science - 1999 - 188 pages
...denied, the blood Of earth in flying attitude. -Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) 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! And every chambered cell, Where... | |
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