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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... "
Selected Poems - Page 314
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...spiral. Can you find no lesson in this? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poeta feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous...purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living...
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...animal that inhabits the shell, which is built in a widening spiral. Can you find no lesson in this? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl,...feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous dark that flings On the sw«et summer wind its purpled wings In g,ll fs enchanted, where the siren...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...with sleepless eye, I watch'd that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as 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 summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs...
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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 - 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,...purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living...
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Songs in Many Keys

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...purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...with sleepless eye, I watch'd that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as 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 summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...with sleepless eye, I waich'd that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as 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 summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs...
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The Illustrated Natural History: Reptiles, fishes, molluscs, etc

John George Wood - 1863 - 830 pages
...cannot resist the opportunity of inserting the exquisite little poem by Dr. Holmes, on a broken shell of the Chambered Nautilus : — " This is the ship of...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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The Illustrated Natural History

John George Wood - 1863 - 840 pages
...the exquisite little poem by Dr. Holmes, on a broken shell of the Chambered Nautilus : — "This in the ship of pearl, which poets feign Sails the unshadowed main — The venturous bark that !l;n;>: ; On the sweet Bummer wind its purpled wings, In gulfs enchanted, where the siren singa And...
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