Arts & Sciences
Swelled limbs, with no outline that you can descry
From The Rossetti Manuscript (c. 1793–1818)
Arts & Sciences
Swelled limbs, with no outline that you can descry.
That stink in the nose of a stander-by.
But all the pulp-wash'd, painted, finish'd with labour.
Of an hundred journeymen's — how-d'ye do Neighbour?
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Blake, William. “Swelled limbs, with no outline that you can descry.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blake/199/.
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Blake, William. “Swelled limbs, with no outline that you can descry.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blake/199/.
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