 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...spiral. Can you find no lesson in this? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poeta feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous...purpled wings In 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...I can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet...purpled wings In 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 328 pages
...stand by the rudder that governs the bark, Nor ask how we look from the shore I THE CHAMBEEED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails...purpled wings In 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...I can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet...purpled wings In 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...1 can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet...purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lic bure, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living... | |
 | John George Wood - Zoology - 1863 - 830 pages
...inserting the exquisite little poem by Dr. Holmes, on a broken shell of the Chambered Nautilus : — " This is the ship of pearl, which poets feign Sails...venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind ita purpled wings, In gulfa enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...I can. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadow'd main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet...purpled wings In 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... | |
 | Richard Meade Bache - Adventure stories - 1866 - 394 pages
...animals. The pearly-nautilus is the one of which Dr. Holmes wrote the beautiful verses, commencing, " This is the ship of pearl which poets feign Sails...The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer winds its purpled wings, In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where... | |
 | Richard Meade Bache - Adventure stories - 1865 - 408 pages
...animals. The pearly-nautilus is the one of which Dr. Holmes wrote the beautiful verses, commencing, M This is the ship of pearl which poets feign Sails...The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer winds its purpled wmg» In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...that delicacy and vigor of diction for which he It celebrated. See in Index, SIREN, TRITON, HOLMES. I. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,...purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. u. Its webs of... | |
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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... 
