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" 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... "
Bedside Poetry: A Parents ̕assistant in Moral Discipline - Page 103
1887 - 143 pages
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...you find no lesson in this? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poeta feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark...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,...
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...unshadowed main, — The venturous dark that flings On the sw«et summer wind its purpled wings In g,ll fs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs...lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streammg hair Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl 1 And every chambered...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...I can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd 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 ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd cell,...
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Hymns of the Ages, Second Series: Being Selections from Wither, Crashaw ...

Caroline Snowden Guild - 1860 - 366 pages
...THIS is the (hip of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unfliadowed main — The venturous barque that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the syren fings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their ftreaming hair. Its...
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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...how we look from the shore ! THE CHAMBEEED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark...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,...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...I can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd 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 ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd cell,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...1 can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet...enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lic bure, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more...
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The Illustrated Natural History: Reptiles, fishes, molluscs, etc

John George Wood - 1863 - 830 pages
...Holmes, on a broken shell of the 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 ita purpled wings, In gulfa enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold...
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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...I can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd 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 ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd cell,...
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The Young Wrecker of the Florida Reef, Or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred ...

Richard Meade Bache - 1865 - 408 pages
...which Dr. Holmes wrote the beautiful verses, commencing, M This is the ship of pearl which poets feign Sails the unshadowed main The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer winds its purpled wmg» In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the...
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