 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  Northumberland, and the Border - Page 254by Walter White - 1859 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1883 - 854 pages
...ground, saw at his feet a little sea-beast dead, and sang over it a dirge of surpassing beauty : — " The tiny cell is 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
...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...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'... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...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....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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...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....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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 1855 - 180 pages
...fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! 2. What is it pa learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same. 3. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir on the shore. Did he... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...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. 3. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir on the shore. Did he... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 on the shore :" "Did he stand 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... | |
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