The speaker describes the title object's formation with the lines "Year after year beheld the silent toil /
This work was inspired by its author's reading of Roget's Bridgewater Treatise, which featured a detailed figure of the title object. The speaker describes the title object's formation with the lines "Year after year beheld the silent toil / That spread his lustrous coil," and depicts "Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!" The final stanza proclaims, "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul / As the swift seasons roll!" FTP, identify this poem about a seashell by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
This work was inspired by its author's reading of Roget's Bridgewater Treatise, which featured a detailed figure of the title object.
The {Chambered Nautilus}