Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTIQUE BIBLE, by KATHRYN DUDLEY First Line: When a collector found Last Line: And never read a line! Subject(s): Bible; Collectors & Collecting | ||||||||
When a collector found The Book, with hand tooled leather bound, And edged with bronze, engraved, and rare -- He quite forgot the questing spirits there. It mattered not that on the yellowed pages Was writ the Story of the Ages. He gave no thought to poetry sublime -- He paid a shocking sum -- And never read a line! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EVERY MAN HIS HOBBY by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON THE OLD COLLECTOR by BEATRICE HANSCOM THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE by THOMAS HARDY THE TRUE BIBLIOPHILE by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON DEATH CAME WITH THE MORNING by KATHRYN DUDLEY OF JACOPO DEL SELLAIO by EZRA POUND THE PROBLEM by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE OWL by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS THE BUOY-BELL by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER PSALM 6; AUGUST 13, 1643 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |
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