Social Commentaries
Translation (The Arms of Waterford)
From Poems (Browning, 1910)
Social Commentaries
A thistle is the Scottish arms,
Which to the toucher threatens harms,
What are the arms of Waterford,
That no man touches--but a ----?
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MLA
Swift, Jonathan. “Translation (The Arms of Waterford).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/334/.
Chicago
Swift, Jonathan. “Translation (The Arms of Waterford).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/334/.
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