Bertha Herkomer (British, 1858–1943 ) | The Bookworm | 1915 | Oil on canvas | Yale Center for British Art
The Bookworm
A moth, I thought, munching a word. How marvellously weird! a worm Digesting a man's sayings -- A sneakthief nibbling in the shadows At the shape of a poet's thunderous phrases -- How unutterably strange! And the pilfering parasite none the wiser For the words he has swallowed.
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