 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Itg irised ceiling runt, its sunless crypt unsealed 1 Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, lie left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...the 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 ship of pearl I And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,...tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd! Year after year beheld the silent... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 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...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,...tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wreek'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell....frail tenant shaped his growing shell. Before thee lics reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless erypt unseal 'd ! Year after year bcheld the... | |
 | John George Wood - Natural history - 1863 - 840 pages
...siren singa And coral reefs lie bare, AVhcre the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Us webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the...dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shsiped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its iriaed ceiling rent, iU sunless crypt... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,...tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...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...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! in. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 pages
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. ii. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! in. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
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... 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... 
