Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN FOR AN ALBUM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poet's Biography First Line: See to your book, young lady, let it be Last Line: And such, young lady, always may you be. Subject(s): Writing & Writers | ||||||||
SEE to your book, young lady; let it be An index to your life -- each page be pure, By vanity uncolored, and by vice Unspotted. Cheerful be each modest leaf, Not rude; and pious be each written page, Without hypocrisy, be it devout; Without moroseness, be it serious; If sportive, innocent: and if a tear Blot its white margin, let it drop for those Whose wickedness needs pity more than hate. Hate no one -- hate their vices, not themselves. Spare many leaves for charity -- that flower That better than the rose's first white bud Becomes a woman's bosom. There we seek And there we find it first. Such be your book, And such, young lady, always may you be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL LET THEM ALONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS TO A FRIEND by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |
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