Living
Riddle 120
From At the Sign of the Sphinx (Second Series)
Living
My first bears many a noble name,
Two letters add, ’t is still the same.
I saw my second in dark waters
It was the last of noble daughters.
My whole, though very picturesque,
May be quite ugly and grotesque;
And Shakespeare used the word to mean
The witches in a ghastly scene.
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 120.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/237/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 120.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/237/.
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