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I've rereading Shelley's "The Sensitive Plant," and I have finally found a good pic of the actual flower, which appears in popular scenes and posters featuring some girl softly blowing its petals away. A symbol of fragile beauty, _Mimosa Pudica_ looks like this:
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Then I wrote this short poem and used a painting by Dicksee, which the painter made specially to depict this peculiar sensitive plant of Shelley's, the vivid picture of Shakespeare's Ophelia, isn't it?
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Here's the piece (without a title):
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## Thanks for reading.
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[Image 1 - _The Sensitive Plant_ by Frank Dicksee_](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Dicksee_-_The_Sensitive_Plant.jpg)


[Image 2 - "Mimosa Pudica" - Photo by Alex Popovkin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Mimosa_pudica_L._-_Flickr_-_Alex_Popovkin%2C_Bahia%2C_Brazil_%282%29.jpg)

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