Versos English Carolyn Wells My first bears many a noble name

English poem

My first bears many a noble name

by (1862–1942)

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My first bears many a noble name, Two letters add, ’t is still the same.

I saw my second in dark waters It was the last of noble daughters.

My whole, though very picturesque, May be quite ugly and grotesque; And Shakespeare used the word to mean The witches in a ghastly scene.