 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
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1881 - 138 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 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...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...the sireu sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. -loss. Ah ! do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this...To linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt l Before theo lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt uusealed! Year after year... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 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...wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year... | |
 | 1911 - 458 pages
...sings; And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its web of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell. Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living ganze Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wreck'd is the ship of pearl ! And every chamber'd id the gay cheer, Some kind voice had murmur'd, " Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...the syren 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... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...wherever, as in the following, he gathers himself together, he is successful : — THE NAUTILUS. " 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. d, And, like а captivo who breaks his chains, Leap...hast uo tidings of gloom and death; Hut buds thou Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt uusealed ! Year after year... | |
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