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 ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,... Victoria Magazine - Seite 4541879Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 Seiten
...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 his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Itg irised ceiling runt, its sunless crypt unsealed 1 Year after year beheld the silent toil That... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 Seiten
...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 his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Ita irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 Seiten
...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, As the frail 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 - 792 Seiten
...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, As the frail 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 Seiten
...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. As the 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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 Seiten
...gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to 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... | |
| John George Wood - 1863 - 840 Seiten
...the frail tenant shsiped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its iriaed ceiling rent, iU sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the...lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the pnnt year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle... | |
| 1866 - 650 Seiten
...of 362 The Art of Not Growing Old. [July, " Year after year beheld the silent toil, That spread its lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left...year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step the shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found home and knew the... | |
| 1866 - 648 Seiten
...nautilus. Thus has a poet described it : " Year after year beheld the silent toil, • That spread its lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left...year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step the shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found home and knew the... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 Seiten
...gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped...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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