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SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10A by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: WOULD THAT I WERE A TURNIP WHITE
Last Line: WITH DEEP-CUT SCOLLOPED EDGES AND A RIM.
Subject(s): WRITING & WRITERS;
Would that I were a turnip white,
Or raven black,
Or miserable hack
Dragging a cab from left to right;
Or would I were the showman of a sight,
Or weary donkey with a laden back,
Or racer in a sack,
Or freezing traveller on an Alpine height;
Or would I were straw catching as I drown,
(A wretched landsman I who cannot swim,)
Or watching a lone vessel sink,
Rather than writing: I would change my pink
Gauze for a hideous yellow satin gown
With deep-cut scolloped edges and a rim.



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