 But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear,...  Titan: A Monthly Magazine... - Page 811847Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 844 pages
...on Satirists." Shake one, and it awakeni — then apply Its polish'd lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." These are lines for you, sir ! They are mine. What do you think of them ? North. — I think very well... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1831 - 504 pages
...midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. And I have others given me by the nymphs, Of sweeter sound than any pipe you have. But we, by Neptune,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pages
...from deep slumber, to speak with miraculous organ, like tho shell which has only to be lifted, and " pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there" — their power, so silent and sublime, of drawing tears, kindling blushes, awakening laughter, calming... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 pages
...wave. — Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And And it remembers its august abodes, ' And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." The three apartments above served equally for store-rooms and bedchambers. William Dove, the brother,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1836 - 46 pages
...wherein 'tis hard to find One happy fancy, one affection kind. Its polisht lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. GEBIB. The words in the Excursion markt by italics are certainly not imitated from Gebir; and it is... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett - 1841 - 40 pages
...midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." To the wondering ear of childhood, those "Sonorous cadences expressed Mysterious union with its native... | |
 | 1842 - 480 pages
...midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. Front GcNr. FROM COUNT JULIAN. O cruelty — to them indeed the least! My children, ye are happy —... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1842 - 296 pages
...mid-way in the wave : Shake one and it awakens ; then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." PAGE 167, ACT III., SCENE VII. " Cumbu is my gage, And by the crown of his head I know the times. Grow... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pages
...midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens — then apply Its polish'd lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." These are lines for you, sir! They are mine. What do you think of them "! JV. I think very well of... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...eloquently says: " Shake one and it awakens ; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there — " which were to be taken on the Bemini Islands, between which and the Florida shore we were to... | |
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