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Aestheticism and Decadence
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Plant
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Poetry
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Gender of Author:
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Literary Period:
"Aestheticism and Decadence"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Victorian"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: April 26 1870
"Like a rose shut in a book / In which pure women may not look, / For its base pages claim control / To crush the flower within the soul."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1891
"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1900
"And hearts responsive to the sound / Insidious, of persuasive sin, / Must carry, like the garden-ground, / A welcome for what grows therein."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900
"Sow not emotion; 'tis a weed / That grows in hedge-row"
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900
"But rare Imagination, caught / Like seed-down from the breezes, sow / In the world's garden"
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
