 Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed: Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed.  A seventh reader - Page 382by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919Full view - About this book
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...the syren 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 1 And every chambered cell Where its dim-dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - Evolution - 1870 - 466 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...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! "Year after year... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. n. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed I in. Year after... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 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...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - Evolution - 1870 - 484 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...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! " Year after year... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - Evolution - 1870 - 720 pages
...reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. " Its webs of living ganze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! " Year after year... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - Evolution - 1870 - 478 pages
...the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming nair0 "Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, WTiere its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair, THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. 371 Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl : Wrecked...ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell Where its dim-dreaming life was wont to dwell. As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies... | |
 | Frances Freeling Broderip - Children and death - 1871 - 324 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, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year... | |
 | William Jones (F. S.) - Marine animals - 1871 - 488 pages
...hair. " Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl, Wreck'd is the ship of pearl! And ev'ry chamber'd cell Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shap'd his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd— Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd... | |
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