| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...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 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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streammg hair Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl 1 And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 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... | |
| Caroline Snowden Guild - Hymns - 1860 - 366 pages
...where the syren fings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their ftreaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the {hip of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim-dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 pages
...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 gauze no...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 - English literature - 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 - Natural history - 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 - American literature - 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,... | |
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