| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 páginas
...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,...tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent... | |
| 1866 - 648 páginas
...nautilus. Thus has a poet described it : " Year after year beheld the silent toil, • That spread its lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step the shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found... | |
| 1866 - 650 páginas
...of 362 The Art of Not Growing Old. [July, " Year after year beheld the silent toil, That spread its lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step the shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 páginas
...Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. u. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered...Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! in. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,... | |
| 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,...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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 páginas
...glowing cell, Before thee lies revealed, Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed. Tear after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 páginas
...to sun their streaming hair Its webs of living gnuzo no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl I And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life...the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thce lies revealed, — • * Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed 1 Year after year... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1868 - 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 his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, lie left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built... | |
| Alexander Winchell - 1870 - 486 páginas
...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 ! And every chambered...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... | |
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