Charles Henry Webb

thumb|Charles Henry Webb Charles Henry Webb (January 24, 1834, Rouse's Point, New York – May 24, 1905) was an American poet, author and journalist. Quotes Friends I have had both old and young,And ale we drank and songs we sung:Enough you know when this is said,That, one and all, they died in bed.In bed they died and I’ll not goWhere all my friends have perished so. Dum vivimus vigilamus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach;But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech.Hold to thine earAnd plain thou'lt hearTales of ships. With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Gather a shell from the strewn beach / And listen at its lips: they sigh / The same desire and mystery, / The echo of the whole sea's speech", Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sea Hints; The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear / The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood. / We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood / In our own veins, impetuous and near", Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Sonnet. Sea-shell Murmurs'. Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shoreThan ever were lost at sea. With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). External links Category:1905 deaths Category:Poets from the United States Category:19th-century poets from the United States Category:People from New York (state)