<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117939" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"...It seems in truth the fairest shell of ocean." —Shelley</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>What is it makes thy sound unto my ear<br> So mournful, Angel of the mighty Sea?<br>Is it the soul of her who once was here,<br> Speaking affection, through thy lips, to me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Oh! from my childhood this has been to me<br> A mystery which no one could solve!—It sounds<br>And sorrows for the Sea incessantly—<br> Telling the grief with which my soul abounds!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>Here, in its labyrinthine curve, it leaves<br> The foot-prints of its song in many dyes;<br>And here, incessantly, it ever weaves<br> The rainbow-tissue of its melodies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.<br>When any harsher sound disturbs me here,<br> In my lamentings in this world for the,<br>I will apply it to my listening ear,<br> And think it is thy soul come down to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Holley+Chivers">Thomas Holley Chivers</a> from <i>Eonchs of Ruby</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117939" data-title="The Shell de Thomas Holley Chivers" data-description=""...It seems in truth the fairest shell of ocean." —Shelley/I./What is it makes thy sound unto my ear/ So mournful, Angel of the mighty Sea?/Is it the soul of her who once was here,/ Speaking affection, through thy lips, to me?/II./Oh! from my c..."></div> </div> </div>

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