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The chambered nautilus is the title and subject of a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in which he admires the "ship of pearl" and the "silent toil/That spread his lustrous coil/Still, as the spiral grew/He left the past year's dwelling for the new." He finds in the mysterious life and death of the nautilus strong inspiration for his own life and ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
The title of the play was derived from the line "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul" in the poem The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Against his wishes, O'Neill's widow, Carlotta Monterey, authorized Karl Ragnar Gierow of the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre to turn the unfinished work into an acting version.
Chambered Nautilus [ edit ] Harold Crosby, the university's first president, selected the chambered nautilus to represent UWF because he was inspired by the poem "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes ; it is "a symbol of growth, change and accomplishment."
Photographed using one of the earliest twist-out, live-action, LED viewfinder screens in a digital camera, the Konica-Minolta Dimage A200. It also had autofocus and a 2 second delay setting so you could actually set the camera on a bench or floor, see the LCD screen clearly without having to lay on the floor with the camera, frame the picture using a manual zoom lens (precise), and dial in the ...
Chambered is an adjective related to the word chamber. It may refer to: Chambered body, an element of some electric guitars; Chambered cairn or Chambered long barrow, types of megalithic burial monument; Chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), the best-known species of nautilus; Chambered stinkhorn (Lysurus periphragmoides), a species of fungus
Two Shells (1927) by Edward Weston. Two Shells, also known as Shells, is a black and white photograph taken by American photographer Edward Weston, in 1927.It was part of a series containing 26 photographs of sea shells from the same year, including Weston's famous Nautilus.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. [A] Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American ...