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June 12, 2021 

Seashells
Alexander Posey

I picked up shells with ruby lips
  That spoke in whispers of the sea,
Upon a time, and watched the ships,
    On white wings, sail away to sea.

The ships I saw go out that day
    Live misty—dim in memory;
But still I hear, from far away,
    The blue waves breaking ceaselessly. 

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on June 12, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Seashells” appeared in The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey (Crane Printers, 1910).
Alexander Posey was born on August 3, 1873. A Muskogee Creek poet, journalist, and humorist known for his poems and Fus Fixico Letters, he served as the editor for the Eufaula Indian Journal. The author of The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey (Crane Printers, 1910), which was published posthumously, he died on May 27, 1908.
The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey
(Crane Printers, 1910)
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