 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2201883Full view - About this book
 | England - 1883 - 854 pages
...spires, and far-away fantastic rocks and blue mountains with a thousand peaks. The bay that I see f ropi my wall has as many rocky islands as there are doctors...forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir ou the shore. Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill Î Did he push, when... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...? A learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living...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 - English poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...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 living...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 - 802 pages
...of 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...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 ?" He still hopes Maud's brother... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same. 3. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living...it stir on the shore. Did he stand at the diamond dnor Of his house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - Brittany (France) - 1856 - 390 pages
...the little living will," set imagination to picture the tiny inhabitant of each varied shell : — " 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 Through his Him water- world ?" But although these exquisite... | |
 | lady Emelia Bithynia Hornby - 1858 - 310 pages
...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...house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl' d, A golden foot or a fairy horn Through hia dim water-world ?" But every pleasant hour must... | |
 | Mrs. Edmund Hornby - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1858 - 546 pages
...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... | |
 | Art - 1858 - 608 pages
...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 f • To the geologist the shells... | |
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