Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Purple Cow, Second Attempt)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

The blessed Purple Cow leaned out
From a pasture lot at even
One horn was sixteen inches long,
The other just eleven.
She had a ruminative face,
And the teeth in her head were seven.
She gazed and listened, then she said
(Less sad of speech than queer),
"Nobody seems to notice me,
None knows that I am here.
And no one wishes to be me!"
She wept. (I heard a tear.)

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

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Purple Cow, Second Attempt).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/265/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Purple Cow, Second Attempt).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/265/.

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