 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
 | Epes Sargent Dixwell - English poetry - 1885 - 122 pages
...cell, 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. "С* N linter haec e margarita, quae mare, Canunt poetae, trans apricum navigat ; Intrépida quae ventis... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...sea-nymphs. 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 ! 1 Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; 2 Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 222 pages
...siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, .Vhere 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... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1960 - 262 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 is...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1861 - 460 pages
...sings, . And coral reefs lie bare; Where cold sea-maids rise, to sun their streaming hair. Its web of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed; Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year behold... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 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 is...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,— Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...sings, And coral reefs lie hare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its wehs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chamhered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 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 is the ship of pearl! 10 And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 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 is...pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming of life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,... | |
 | Rachel R. Baum - Social Science - 1999 - 188 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 is...dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed— Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld... | |
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