 | 1855 - 534 Seiten
...sweetness of its expression, forms a very grateful relief to the more violent passages preceding it : — " 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 Seiten
...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,...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. Let him... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 Seiten
...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,...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. Let him... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 436 Seiten
...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. 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 - 1859 - 188 Seiten
...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,...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. Let him... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | 1862 - 692 Seiten
...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,...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 ! * * * * "... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | William L Robinson - 1862 - 232 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
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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 ! What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. 
