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
| Ackworth Old Scholars' Association - 1882 - 736 דפים
...their habitations, and Tennyson's beautiful lines in "Maud" were brought before us, beginning — " See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot ; Frail, but a work divine, Made BO fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! ' ' For... | |
| 1882 - 284 דפים
...unresting sea ! OLIVRR WRNDRLL HOLMKS. A SEA-SHELL. ^ Small and pure as a pearl, O EE what a lovely shell, 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... | |
| 1883 - 270 דפים
...men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and vain, For promised joy. BUBNS. A SEA-SHELL. 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. 1 Not alone. How exquisitely minute A miracle of design... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 דפים
...other here in the dust ; We arc not worthy to live. XXIV. X. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and purg 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?... | |
| George Washington Tryon - 1883 - 420 דפים
...aid of authors and collectors, who may possess unfigured or critical species. January, 1883. GWT, JR. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl* Lying close to ray foot, Prail, but a work divine, Made so fairly well With delicate spire and whorl. How exquisitely... | |
| 1884 - 610 דפים
...13. Cerithium folium-sanctorum, lateral view, natural size and enlarged. A FRAIL AND BEAUTIFUL SHELL. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir on the shore, Did he stand... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 56 דפים
...But I go on for ever. " I CHATTER OVER STONY WAYS, IN LITTLE SHARPS AND TREBLES." SONG FROM "MAUD." 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... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 444 דפים
...as are before me here ! — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1805. OEE 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... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 דפים
...Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone." " 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 !" " Dead,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 526 דפים
...weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in, the dust; We are not worthy to live. n 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... | |
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