 ... CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. 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 Ohio Educational Monthly - Page 4971906Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its hoH 22 shaj>ed his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt... | |
 | Readers - 1880 - 404 pages
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the...dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tcnant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless... | |
 | Education - 1911 - 458 pages
...sings; And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its web of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship...Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread its lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...sireu sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its s. Ah ! do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this sorrow,...linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt leave me theo lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt uusealed! Year after year beheld... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 pages
...Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the...wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd id the gay cheer, Some kind voice had murmur'd, " reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...syren sings And coral reefs lie bare ; Where 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 Where its dim-dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the...Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread its lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1882 - 558 pages
...sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. 2. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...wherever, as in the following, he gathers himself together, he is successful : — THE NAUTILUS. " Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! " Yenr after year beheld the sileut toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
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