 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1888 - 336 páginas
...that they are even named after them ; as the snipe and parrot fishes. It is in the southern waters, " in gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, and coral reefs lie bare," that these striking similarities can best be seen. There the water is clear as crystal, so that that... | |
 | Frances Ellis Sabin - 1927 - 442 páginas
...Prologue, p. 20 A little Cyclops with one eye Staring to threaten and defy. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The Daisy This is the ship of pearl, which poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, The venturesome bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted where the... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1928 - 888 páginas
...none looks with scorning, And no soul attains who fears." THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails...purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where... | |
 | William Arthur Parks - 1920 - 644 páginas
...direct organic descent seems superfluous. Oliver Wendell Holmes has sung the praises of the pearly nautilus : This is the ship of pearl, which, poets...siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Yes, and its almost exact counterpart spread/; its wings... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1861 - 460 páginas
..."Atlantic Monthly." Let the reader take in his hand a pearly Nautilus cut through the middle, and say — This is the Ship of Pearl, which, poets feign. Sails...the siren 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 páginas
...in a widening spiraL Can you find no lesson in this? 94 Famous Poems from Bygone Days The Chamhered Nautilus This is the ship of pearl which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous hark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 páginas
...saints blow up the globe; 35 But when you see that blessed day, Then order your ascension robe! 1857 THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS This is the ship of pearl,...flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings 5 In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 páginas
...ordinary or rebuild her whenever the public service may require.' — New York Journal of Commerce." The Chambered Nautilus This is the ship of pearl,...purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2005 - 341 páginas
...animal that inhabits the shell, which ibuilt in a widening spiral, Caa you find no lesson it this! THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, This is the ship of pearl,...enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs He bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Jaw. Its webs of living gauze no more... | |
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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 sun... 
