 Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed: Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed.  A seventh reader - Page 382by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919Full view - About this book
 | 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, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd! Year after year... | |
 | 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 - 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. As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell. Before thee lics reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless erypt unseal 'd ! Year after year... | |
 | 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, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 830 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...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year... | |
 | 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, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year... | |
 | 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...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! in. Year after... | |
 | 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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