 But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 74edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as...Dove the brother slept in one, and Agatha the maid in another. R. SOUTHEY. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. From Gebir. ROSE AYLMER. OH what avails the sceptred race, Oh what the form divine ! What every virtue,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. PRAYERS. [From Book V.] Ye men of Gades, armed with brazen shields, And ye of near Tartessus, where... | |
 | George Gilfillan, Robert A. Watson, Elizabeth S. Watson - 1892 - 498 pages
...sitting silent on the mantelpiece and apply it to the ear ; it begins immediately to speak as ' pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' Take up the book and it will tell you news from remoter shores than those of the Pacific, from mightier... | |
 | 1893 - 860 pages
...your ears except soft musical notes, soothing and agreeable as the whispering of a sea-shell when " it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." The buildings surrounding the lagoon are destined to hold whatever exhibits are peculiar to no locality,... | |
 | John Forster - 1895 - 600 pages
...midway in the wave : Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' Nor unworthy of these are the lines wherein Gebir bids his followers supplicate the gods, and prayers... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 pages
...midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. And I have others given me by the nymphs, Of sweeter sound than any pipe you have : But we, by Neptune... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1894 - 588 pages
...stands midway in the wave: Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. I STROVE WITH NONE. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1896 - 354 pages
...soil on which it grows. What is it that has put that sound of waves into the sea-shell ? Perhaps " it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." I am never brought into presence of the sea or the mountains, without feeling how truly Wordsworth... | |
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