A captive to my galling chain, I've tried to rise, but tried in vain- The cup allures and then destroys.
"Poems"
Frances E. W. Harper
Memories of the golden hours spent in threading the flowery maze of the vast Archipelago, seem a mere handful of shells gathered on the surf-beaten shores, but if even the empty shell can hold the sound of the waves, this brief record of a cruise in sunny seas may also convey faint whispers of that syren voice which echoed through the ages of the past, and still allures the spellbound listener to the swaying palms and spice-scented bowers of Malaya's Island Paradise.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
A peep-show of the siege of Gibraltar allures the patriotic.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy