 The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir on the shore. Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro...  Maud, and other poems - Strona 89autor: Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1866Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 534
...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 be the same....house in a rainbow frill? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world ? Slight, to be crush'd with a tap... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - Liczba stron: 176
...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,...house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world ? 4. Slight, to be crush'd with a... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 802
...the latter. He re- appears, wandering on the " Breton strand/' and musing on a tenantless shell. " The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living...Of his house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when ho was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world ?" He still hopes Maud's brother... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - Liczba stron: 176
...divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! Let him name it who can. The beauty would be the same....house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water- world ? 4. Slight, to be crush'd with... | |
 | lady Emelia Bithynia Hornby - 1858 - Liczba stron: 310
...collection. I thought of Tennyson's exquisite inquiry as to the inmate of a shell found on the sand, " void of the little living Will, that made it stir...when he was uncurl' d, A golden foot or a fairy horn Through hia dim water-world ?" But every pleasant hour must come to an end, so I took another wide,... | |
 | Mrs. Edmund Hornby - 1858 - Liczba stron: 546
...collection. I thought of Tennyson's exquisite inquiry as to the inmate of a shell found on the sand, "void of the little living Will, that made it stir...at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill f Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Through his dim water-world?" But... | |
 | 1858 - Liczba stron: 618
...forms, and to inquiry into the habits of the " living will " that once tenanted each lovely cell : — Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a raiubow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world?... | |
 | Walter White - 1859 - Liczba stron: 498
...the Laureate finds .us an expression : — " What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same....house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot, or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water- world ? " Then reclining on the grassy... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - Liczba stron: 188
...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 little living...at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill 1 Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water- world ? 4.... | |
 | 1859 - Liczba stron: 388
...forms, and to inquiry into the habits of the " living will" that once tenanted each lovely cell. , " Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water-world ?"* To the geologist the shells of... | |
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