 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. u. 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,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 pages
...to sun their streaming hair Its webs of living gnuzo no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl I And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life...the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thce lies revealed, — • * Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed 1 Year after year... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 pages
...the syren sings And coral reefa lie bare ; Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked...ship of pearl-! And every chambered cell Where its dim-dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his glowing cell, Before thee lies... | |
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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... 
