Living

The Re-echo Club: as by William Wordsworth (Purple Cow)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dee;
A Cow whom there were few to praise
And very few to see.
A violet by a mossy stone
Greeting the smiling East
Is not so purple, I must own,
As that erratic beast.
She lived unknown, that Cow, and so
I never chanced to see;
But if I had to be one, oh,
The difference to me!

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of William Wordsworth as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Purple Cow).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by William Wordsworth (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/247/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by William Wordsworth (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/247/.

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