 Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home,...  American Poetry - Página 431por Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 721 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 páginas
...was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Ita irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed !...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 páginas
...growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his lost-found home, and knew the oli no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 páginas
...Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 páginas
...cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 páginas
...growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the <>'.! no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 830 páginas
...Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 páginas
...growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 páginas
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! in. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no mora IV. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 páginas
...chambered cell Where its dim-dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his glowing cell, Before thee lies revealed, Its irised ceiling rent,...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found home, and knew the old Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of... | |
 | 1897 - 1192 páginas
...of nature. Who but a biologist, who was also a poet, could have sung of the chambered nautilus ? " Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more." To those who seek the practical utility of scientific... | |
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