Living
No Insect Smells So Fulsome as That Hard
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
No insect smells so fulsome as that hard
Unseemly beetle which corrodes the rose.
Bring forth your microscope; about the bard
One very like it (only less) it shows.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “No Insect Smells So Fulsome as That Hard.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/669/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “No Insect Smells So Fulsome as That Hard.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/669/.
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