In a poem titled for one of these objects, a girl with eyes as blue “as the fairy-flax / Her cheeks like the dawn of day” asks her father questions about hearing “the church-bells ring” and “the sound of guns,” but receives no reply. A poem titled for one of these objects ends with the lament that “Christ save us all from a death like this.” The speaker claims, “There is no [one of these objects] like a Book” in an Emily (15[1])Dickinson poem. The title creature is compared to one of these objects (*) “of pearl” in the first line of “The Chambered Nautilus,” whose author began another poem about one of these objects with the exclamation, “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!” For 10 points, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. stopped the decommissioning of what kind of vehicle with his poem “Old Ironsides?” ■END■