I Send a shell from the ocean beach;
But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech.
Hold to thine ear,
And plain thou ’lt hear
Tales of ships
That were lost in the rips,
Or that sunk on the shoals...
Charles Henry Webb
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Turn out more ale, turn up the light;
I will not go to bed to-night.
Of all the foes that man should dread
The first and worst one is a bed.
Friends I have had both old and young,
And ale we drank and songs we sung:
Enough you know when this is... -
The queen sat in her balcony,
The Loveliest of Spain;
Beneath rode all the chivalry,
And roses fell like rain
To crown the gallant gentlemen
The gonfalon who bore:
A woman’s favor fell for one,—
Gil, the Toreador.Beneath...
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The earth seems a desolate mother,—
Betrayed like the princess of old,
The ermine stripped from her shoulders,
And her bosom all naked and cold.But a joy looks out from her sadness,
For she feels with a glad unrest
The throb of the unborn... -
I send thee a shell from the ocean beach;
But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech.
Hold to thine ear,
And plain thou’lt hear
Tales of ships
That were lost in the rips,
Or that sunk on shoals
Where...