 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - Počet stránok 408
...expatriated lover of Maud on the Breton strand is not moved by the roll of the breakers so much as by the Lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close...Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, i How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! " What is it ? " he asks, and we have the researches... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - Počet stránok 802
...beat, Had I lain for a century dead ; Would start and tremble under her feet, THE SHELL FROM "MAUD" SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design I What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - Počet stránok 810
...dead ; Would start and tremble nnder her feet, And blossom in purple and red. THE SHELL FROM "MAUD" SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicats spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it ? a learned man... | |
 | William Gee - 1895 - Počet stránok 336
...and their rich hues. Tennyson expresses the popular admiration of these products of the sea : — ' ' See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine. Made so fairly well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute — A miracle of design. "The tiny... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - Počet stránok 388
...beat, Had I lain for a century dead ; Would start and tremble under her feet, THE SHELL FROM "MAUD" 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... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1897 - Počet stránok 902
...themselves firmly to the lid of the box in which they were kept. SHELLS. BY MARGARET WENTWOBTH LE1GHTON. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairly well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! Slight, to... | |
 | 1896 - Počet stránok 532
...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,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design 1 What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would... | |
 | 1880 - Počet stránok 692
...king of birds, he with matchless delicacy characterizes a shell, which he finds on the seashore. " See what a lovely shell, Small, and pure as a pearl,...Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl I How exquisitely minute ! A miracle of design 1" From the eagle on the crag, to the glow worm in the... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis - 1897 - Počet stránok 540
...candles, the watching stars. THE SHELL. By ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Poet. B. 18o9, England : d. 1892. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name who can, The beauty would be the same. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That... | |
 | 1897 - Počet stránok 896
...themselves firmly to the lid of the box in which they were kept. SHELLS. BY MARGARET WENTWORTH LEIGHTON. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot. Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairly well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! Slight, to... | |
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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... 
