Venice masks

Wednesday 19 February 2014

Simile - Charlotte Dacre

The little Moth round candle turning,
Stops not till its wings are burning:
So woman, dazzled by man's wooing,
Rushes to her own undoing.

Charlotte Dacre (c.1782 - 1841) England
(also known as Rosa Matilda)

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