A Venomous Blight

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Zoom in — And unctuous meteors from spray to spray
Crept and flitted in broad noonday
Unseen; every branch on which they alit
By a venomous blight was burned and bit.

(P. 107.)

Artist

Name:: Robinson, Charles
Dates:: 1870-1937
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Color Process
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The sensitive plant
Author:: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Publisher:: London, Philadelphia: William Heinemann, J. B. Lippincott Company, n.d. [1911]
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Description:

In a desolate garden where all vegetation has withered to ashen remains, a mournful putto kneels atop a begrimed urn, his face in his hands.

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