 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 sun...  The Essentials of Language and Grammar - Page 193by Albert Le Roy Bartlett - 1900 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...inhabits the shell, which is built in a widening spiral. Can you find no lesson in this? THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets...feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous dark that flings On the sw«et summer wind its purpled wings In g,ll fs enchanted, where the siren... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...eye, I watch'd that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as 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 summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs... | |
 | Caroline Snowden Guild - Hymns - 1860 - 366 pages
...THIS is the (hip of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unfliadowed main — The venturous barque that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the syren fings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their ftreaming hair. Its... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...eye, I waich'd that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as 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 summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...eye, I watch'd that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as 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 summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs... | |
 | John George Wood - Zoology - 1863 - 830 pages
...opportunity of inserting the exquisite little poem by Dr. Holmes, on a broken shell of the Chambered Nautilus : — " This is the ship of pearl, which...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... | |
 | John George Wood - Natural history - 1863 - 840 pages
...the exquisite little poem by Dr. Holmes, on a broken shell of the Chambered Nautilus : — "This in the ship of pearl, which poets feign Sails the unshadowed main — The venturous bark that !l;n;>: ; On the sweet Bummer wind its purpled wings, In gulfs enchanted, where the siren singa And... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...eye, I watch'd that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as 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 summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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