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 150by William Houghton - 1870 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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