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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 to... "
Choice Literature: For Grammar Grades - Page 124
1898
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

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...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...
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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 pages
...the rudder that governs the bark, Nor ask how we look from the shore ! \ TIE CHAMBEKED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails 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...
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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 326 pages
...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...chambered 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...
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The Illustrated Natural History: Reptiles, fishes, molluscs, etc

John George Wood - Zoology - 1863 - 830 pages
...wings, In gulfa 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...chambered 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...
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Standard Fifth Reader, Part 2

Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...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, Sails the...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 is...
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The Standard Fifth Reader: With a New Treatise on Elocution and an ..., Part 2

Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...delicacy and vigor of diction for which ha ii celebrated. See in Index, SIBEH, TRITON, HOLMES. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the...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 is...
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The autocrat of the breakfast table, with an intr. by G.A. Sala

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 244 pages
...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...chambered 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...
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Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the ...

Alexander Winchell - Evolution - 1870 - 484 pages
...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...chambered 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...
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The Whispers of a Shell; Or, Stories from the Sea

Frances Freeling Broderip - Children and death - 1871 - 326 pages
...in childhood it conveyed in some strange manner much of the beautiful meaning of the poet : ' This is the ship of pearl which, poets feign, Sails the...streaming 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...
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The Sixth Reader

Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 432 pages
...and noble world he lives in, and all of which it is capable ! GUI— THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. L THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the...enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie hare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. n. Its wehs of living gauze no more...
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