 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 to sun...  The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader - Page 2381875Full 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,...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 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...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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 - 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...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | 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,...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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