"I'll be a new bird with the head of an ass,
Two pigs' feet, two men's feet, and two of a hen"
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press. |
"We have bathed, where none have seen us,
In the lake and in the fountain,
Underneath the charmed statue
Of the timid, bending Venus,"
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, The. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1987) Oxford University Press. |
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