 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1883 - 770 trang
...camerated coil of pearly Nautilus, contemporary of the ages past as well as of the living present : — " Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still as the spiral grew lie left his past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archwny through, Built... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 trang
...chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was 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 year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 trang
...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! 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1884 - 1242 trang
...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...the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before theelies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld... | |
 | Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 trang
...hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl : Wrecked is the ehip of pearl ! And every chambered cell Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent,...unsealed. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spreadjiis lustrous coil: Still as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 404 trang
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bareA Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. 2. Its webs /of living gauze/ no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship/ of Bearl ! And every chambered cell, >• \Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dyell, As the frail... | |
 | Epes Sargent Dixwell - 1885 - 118 trang
...Siren sings, 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...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed. T7 N linter haec e margarita, quae mare, Canunt poetae, trans apricum navigat ; Intrepida quae ventis... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1885 - 1148 trang
...sweet summer wind its purpled wings Ingulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked...revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crvpt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1894 - 782 trang
...Rewrite the stanza in well-constructed prose, supplying such words as are omitted by poetic license. II. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl,— Wrecked...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,— Its irised celling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! 8. Is living gauze literal or figurative? To what does it... | |
 | Leila G. Bedell - 1885 - 72 trang
...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...And every chambered cell Where its dim dreaming life were wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, Its irised... | |
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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... 
