 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Ita irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed !...Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : Build thee more stately... | |
 | 1858 - 572 pages
...build year after year a new chamber to the spiral shell they occupy, and thus moralizes upon it — "Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,...is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! 1858.] [DECEMBER 1858. '- Build thcc more stately mansions, O my eoul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 pages
...sail as before, And stand by the rudder that governs the bark, Nor ask how we look from the shore ! THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl,...Than ever Triton blew from wreathe'd horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : — Build thee more... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...before, And stand by the rudder that governs the bark, Nor ask how we look from the shore ! THE CHAMBEEED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets...Than ever Triton blew from wreathe'd horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : — Build thee more... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 pages
...cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...Than ever Triton blew from wreathe'd horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : — Build thee more... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the <>'.! no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by...From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Tritoii blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 840 pages
...year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the pnnt year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step...Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voic.i that sings : — Build thee more... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the old no more....note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn I While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : Build thee... | |
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Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its... 
