It describes "silent toil" that spreads the title creature's "lustrous coil" andcommands "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul".
A phrase from this poem titles both an unfinished sequel to A Touch of the Poet and a KurtVonnegut story whose main character obsesses over home and garden magazines. Its fourth stanzabegins "Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee". This poem describes "cold sea-maids"that "rise to sun their streaming hair" and describes an "irised ceiling" and a "sunless crypt". Iturges its subject to "leave thy (*) low-vaulted past" and to "let each new temple" "shut thee from heavenwith a dome more vast". It describes "silent toil" that spreads the title creature's "lustrous coil" andcommands "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul". For 10 points, name this poem about a creaturethat lives in a "ship of pearl", a work of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A phrase from this poem titles both an unfinished sequel to A Touch of the Poet and a KurtVonnegut story whose main character obsesses over home and garden magazines.
"The Chambered Nautilus"