SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. The Popular Science Monthly - עמוד 461897תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1907 - 372 דפים
...— never, That swan's nest among the reeds. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. SEE WHAT A LOVELY SHELL C EE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! What is it?... | |
| Fanny E. Coe - 1908 - 388 דפים
...So nobody was punished at all. SEE WHAT A LOVELY SHELL! ex'qui site ly rnir'a cle a thwart' mi nute' See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so f airily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 610 דפים
...weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust; We are not worthy to live. II. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frai], but a work divine, Made so fairily wejl With delicate spire and whorj, How exquisitely minute,... | |
| Bridget Ellen Burke - 1909 - 264 דפים
...are the best known of his long poems. He wrote dramas ; one, " Queen Mary, " has met with some favor. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl. How exquisitely minute ! A miracle of design ! What is it ? A learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would... | |
| Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - 1910 - 232 דפים
...animals, a species of which secretes a hard, stony substance known as coral. THE SHELL ALFRED TENNYSON See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well 5 With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is... | |
| 1910 - 532 דפים
...weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust ; We are not worthy to live. II I SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 דפים
...for a century dead, Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom iti purple and red. PART II d day. For what are men better than sheep or goats...nourish a blind life within Uie brain, If, knowing Go fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design 1 What is it... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer, Winifred Lucas Lockyer - 1910 - 244 דפים
...6 Vol. I., p. 22. A shell and the form of life that lives in it is thus referred to in Maud: — I. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! II. What is... | |
| 1910 - 970 דפים
...and ugliness at his feet on the seashore, and to exclaim, — See what a lovely shell, Small and pnre as a pearl, Lying close to my foot ; Frail, but a work divine. Made so fairily weIl With a delicate spire and a whorl. How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design. There... | |
| John Rennie - 1910 - 394 דפים
...they speak of lovely shells. So does Tennyson : " See what a lovely shell Small and pure as a peai'! . Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design. The tiny cell... | |
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