PoemHurt No Living Thing
Author / PoetChristina Rossetti
TagsHarm, Innocence, Life, Nature

Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.

Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
5 Dec 1830 - 29 Dec 1894
Region: Northern Europe
Period: Victorian
Movement: Pre-Raphaelite

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