The delicate shells lay on the shore; the bubbles of the latest wave fresh pearls to their enamel gave; and the bellowing of the savage sea greeted their safe escape to me. i wiped away the weeds and foam, i fetched my sea-born treasures home; but the poor, unsightly, noisome things had left their beauty on the shore, when you take a seashell off the beach, it loses some of its beauty. based on the imagery in the line above, why does it lose its beauty when the speaker takes it home? because they become “unsightly” without sunlight because they are still covered in weeds because you can no longer feel the bubbles or hear the waves because his home does not have a nautical theme