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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurt no living thing
Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation
First Line: Hurt no living thing
Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation
Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, no butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing.
No cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, no beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.
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BLACK NIKES by HARRYETTE MULLEN
ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
SABBATH, 1985, VI by WENDELL BERRY
PLANTING TREES by WENDELL BERRY
THE OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER by WENDELL BERRY