A little marsh-plant, yellow green And pricked at lip with a tender red, Tread close, and wither way you tread, Some faint black water jets between Least you should bruise the curious head.


The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Sundew, W. Heinemann. 1919

Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

A little marsh-plant, yellow green And pricked at lip with a tender red, Tread close, and wither way you tread, Some faint black water jets between...

A little marsh-plant, yellow green And pricked at lip with a tender red, Tread close, and wither way you tread, Some faint black water jets between...

A little marsh-plant, yellow green And pricked at lip with a tender red, Tread close, and wither way you tread, Some faint black water jets between...

A little marsh-plant, yellow green And pricked at lip with a tender red, Tread close, and wither way you tread, Some faint black water jets between...