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" 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 ! 2 What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy... "
Sea-side Walks of a Naturalist with His Children - Page 150
by William Houghton - 1870 - 154 pages
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...Strike dead the whole weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust ; 6 XXIII. 1. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...Strike dead the whole weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust ; XXIII. 1. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little...
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"Worlds Not Realized.".

Margaret Gatty - 1856 - 244 pages
...put together again ; he examines its component parts, and then gives me a hard name for it : — ' What is it ? A learned man Could give it a clumsy name.' But is the flower less a mystery than before ? Or, perhaps he goes farther than this — examines the...
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Maud ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 pages
...Arise, my God, and strike, for we hold Thee just, Strike dead the whole weak race of venomous worms, 1. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same. 8. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the...
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Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust ; We are not worthy to live. XXIV. 1. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2. What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc ..., Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust ; We are not worthy to live. XXIV. 1. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2. What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would...
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The pronouncing reading book for children, with an intr., by W.L. Robinson

William L Robinson - 1862 - 232 pages
...brimmin'g river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. Tennyson. THE LITTLE SEA-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...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 2

Congregationalism - 1862 - 692 pages
...disappointment picks up a sea-shell on the beach and thus soliloquizes. Who writes so, save Tennvson ? " 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....
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc: Two Volumes in One

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust ; We are not worthy to live. XXIV. 1. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2. What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Ocean murmurs there. WS Länder. SHELLS— Beauties of. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as 1 exqusitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let...
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