 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 436 str.
...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...revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt uusealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 350 str.
...sufficiently justified by the name commonly applied to the ship of pearl as well an the ship of paper. 7 And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed I Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 str.
...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...dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaj>ed his growing shell, Before thce lies revealed. Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 str.
...siren sings, 5 And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. II. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl, — Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, 10 Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, ANALYSIS.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 str.
...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... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 str.
...Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. 2. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl : Wrecked...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed. 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1857 - 494 str.
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. 2. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed 1 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 str.
...bark that flings And coral reefs lie bare, "Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. wings In g'ulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,...wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! shell, Year after... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 str.
...that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, 2. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is...life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped its growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 402 str.
...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 toil... | |
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... CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. 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... 
