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Poems Of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Chambered Nautilus
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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Chambered Nautilus
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 their streaming hair.
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 the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, - Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after ...
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