Living
Minnie and Winnie
From Poetical Works (1899)
Living
MINNIE and Winnie
Slept in a shell.
Sleep, little, ladies!
And they slept well.
Pink was the shell within,
Silver without;
Sounds of the great sea
Wander'd about.
Sleep, little ladies!
Wake not soon!
Echo on echo
Dies to the moon.
Two bright stars
Peep'd into the shell.
'What are they dreaming of?
Who can tell?'
Started a green linnet
Out of the croft;
Wake, little ladies,
The sun is aloft I
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Minnie and Winnie.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/335/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Minnie and Winnie.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/335/.
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