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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOOKS Matches Found: 891 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` $2.50, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that dashing, dauntless, delphic, diehard, diabolic cracker likes his fiction turned Subject(s): Books & Reading; Popular Culture; Class Struggle A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In dingy binding dark with time Last Line: In brimming flagons! Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading A BLURB FOR 'ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE', by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Buy a book in brown paper Subject(s): Books; Reading A BLURB FOR 'HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE', by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humptydump dublin squeaks through his norse Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no frigate like a book Last Line: That bears a human soul! Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK, by HANNAH MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a strange contradiction; I'm new and I'm old Last Line: And no monarch alive has so many pages. Variant Title(s): A Riddle (a Book) Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK FULL OF PICTURES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father studied theology through the mail Subject(s): Books; Reading A BOOK OF CELTIC VERSE (TO SEUMAS MACMANUS), by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was never a book that you brought me and gave to my hand Last Line: That you gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Celts; Poetry & Poets; Reading A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some, fingering the leaves of memory's book Last Line: Began, continued, ended -- all with you! Subject(s): Books; Reading A CORONAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New books of poetry will be written Last Line: Many and many a time. Subject(s): Books; Reading A COURSE OF REGULAR READING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master bee, as you wanton among the sweet flowers Last Line: Let's be foolish and happy to spite them! Subject(s): Books; Reading A DEDICATION, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take these rhymes into thy grace Last Line: Lies reflected on its pages. Subject(s): Books; Reading A FAIRY TALE, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in days of yore a little princess, who had summers seen Last Line: Then she laid her down, and, praying, slept the long unmorrowing sleep. Subject(s): Books; Fairy Tales; Story-telling; Reading A FORGOTTEN BARD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dim nook beneath the street Last Line: Some book of mine be housed and read? Subject(s): Books; New York City; Poetry Readings; Reading; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A HINT TO A YOUNG PERSON, .. IMPROVEMENT, BY READING OR CONVERSATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In reading authors, when you find Last Line: That socrates does now speak truth. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reason; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A LATE HISTORY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians A MANUAL MORE ANCIENT THAT THE ART OF PRINTING ..., by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a book, which we may call Last Line: So brilliant and so keen. Subject(s): Prints & Printers; Books; Reading A MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary A PRAYER, by CATHARINE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Lord, let me think of life as an account Last Line: God grant the balance may be on the right! Subject(s): Books; God; Life; Prayer; Reading A RACK OF PAPERBACKS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gateway, grove, / and dover say Subject(s): Paperback Books A RHYMED REVIEW; 'LAUGHING MUSE' (BY ARTHUR GUITERMAN), by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An obvious thing for one to do Last Line: "I hope to god a lion bit her." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Guiterman, Arthur (1871-1943); Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading A SHELF IS A LEDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't understand by what perversity Last Line: As he screams in the dark: survive! Survive! Subject(s): Books; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Inanimate Objects; Survival; Reading A STUDY OF READING HABITS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When getting my nose in a book Subject(s): Books; Hate; Reading A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell thee now (deare love) what thou shalt do Last Line: But to marke when, and where the darke eclipses bee? Subject(s): Books; Reading A VISIT TO THE POET, by RODOLFO PUCELLI Poem Text First Line: The bard received me with open-heartedness ... Last Line: Bowed underneath the universe. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading ABANDONING MY PROFESSION, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: All of you leave me Last Line: Where I will stay Subject(s): Books; Professions; Writing And Writers ACCOUNT, by PADDY MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Once there was a book that kept Last Line: Leaves settle for my window ledges Subject(s): Books ADDRESS FROM THE BOOK-COLLECTOR TO THE BOOK-READER, by J. BERESFORD Poem Source First Line: Ye pedants, burning to be known Last Line: That persians but adore the sun %till taught to know our god- black-letter Subject(s): Books; Pedants ADDRESS TO MY BOOK; AN ELEGY, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of my love, go forth, and try thy fate Last Line: How like the beauteous fruit, that turns to dew - %the life ambrosial, into drops of death! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Books AETIA: PROLOGUE. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go learn, o green-eyed monster's fatal brood Last Line: Let me go light, and flit my dainty way. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Books; Reading AFTER READING 'COLLECTED LANDSCAPES', by DEIRDRE DWYER Poem Source First Line: And then I came to the brain's pink canyons Last Line: For every small thing %to explain us Subject(s): Books; Canyons AFTER READING A CHAPTER BY HENRY JAMES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "and after angelina, laying down" Last Line: "sank back upon her pillows, quite fagged out" Subject(s): "authors & Authorship;books;james, Henry (1843-1916);" Reading AFTER READING AUSTIN DOBSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In a crowded room I seemed to stand Last Line: "to find it closed, and ended the song / whose gay, glad cadence lived on in my heart" Subject(s): "books;dobson, Austin (1840-1921);parties;solitude;" Reading;loneliness AFTER READING HASSAN: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haroun, haroun, thou art gone from us, haroun! Last Line: Haroun the caliph wears a blackened brow. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading AFTER READING TAKAHASHI, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is the same to anyone Last Line: That is my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Books; Change; Reading AGAINST THE EVIDENCE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I reach to close each book Subject(s): Books; Reading AGAINST THE EVIDENCE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I reach to close each book Last Line: Against the evidence, I live by choice Subject(s): Books AGAINST WRITERS THAT CARP AT OTHER MEN'S BOOKS, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The readers and the hearers like my books Last Line: I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Variant Title(s): Of Writers That Carp ... Other Men's Books Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading ALL THINGS BELONGING TO THIS GAME, by JAMES ROWBOTHUM Poem Source Last Line: At the bookshop under bochurche, %in cheapside, redilye Subject(s): Books ALMOST TRANSPARENT, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You and your books Last Line: Almost transparent curtain %of your poems Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets AMONG MY BOOKS, by FRANCIS ROBERT ST. CLAIR ERSKINE Poem Source First Line: Alone, 'midst living works of mighty dead Alternate Author Name(s): Rosslyn, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Books AMONG MY BOOKS, by MARK HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: It is treason to read Subject(s): Books AMONG MY BOOKS, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among my books - what rest is there Last Line: Perchance, forget the frowning fair %among my books Subject(s): Books AMORETTI: 1, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy ye leaves! When as those lily hands Last Line: Whom if ye please, I care for other none. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "to His Book;""happy Ye Leaves When As Those Lilly Hands,""; Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of english poetry, I find Last Line: With righter verdict, tho' the court's a dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; English Language; Language Poetry; Poetry & Poets; Reading AN EXCUSE FOR SO MUCH WRIT UPON MY VERSES, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Condemn me not for making such a coyle [coil] Last Line: Thus write I much, to hinder all disgrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Variant Title(s): An Apology For Writing So Much Upon This Book Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading AN EXPERIENCE AND A MORAL, by FREDERICK SWARTWOUT COZZENS Poem Text First Line: I lent my love a book one day Last Line: Unless you read it afterward! Subject(s): Admiration; Books; Reading AN INTERIOR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you cannot sit with me Last Line: Which brings death -- not escape. Subject(s): Books; Death; Pine Trees; Trees; Voices; Reading; Dead, The AN INTRODUCTION TO MY ANTHOLOGY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a book must contain Last Line: But only as a peacock among barn fowl. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading ANATOMIE OF ABUSES, SELS., by PHILIP STUBBES Subject(s): Books ANOTHER BOOK, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another book! How my heart flees Last Line: Toward the inclusive sinecure. Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Soul; Reading ANOTHER QUESTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He'd read it hundreds of times before Last Line: In one luminous moment. For how long? Subject(s): Books; Strength ARABEL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jeweled fingers Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Books; Youth; Reading ARIEL'S REPLY, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: If reading learned books Last Line: Her sandals - this air made nothing happen Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets ART OF READING', by JAMES KLEIN Poem Source First Line: The impeccably-dressed short man Last Line: Having musicians with unanimously %unpronounceable names Subject(s): Books; Music And Musicians AS WELL HIM AS ANOTHER, by DANIEL J. LANGTON Poem Source First Line: My name is molly. I read the odd book Last Line: Now that it's written, now that it's written down Subject(s): Books; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Writing And Writers AT THE BOOKSTORE, by CHRIS ORTIZ Poem Source First Line: Wandering among the books, I have hidden Last Line: Giving away our desires Subject(s): Books ATOMS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Take out of the shy square Last Line: Exist in this book of the sleeping cosmos Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers AUDIENCE, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I take the time to read slowly, the words sink in Last Line: As if veiled by mist, and he sees them darkly? Subject(s): Books AURORA LEIGH; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of writing books there is no end Last Line: The rest in order: - last, an amethyst Subject(s): Books; Landscape; Mothers; Religion AUTHOR TO HIS BOOK, by BARNABE RICH Poem Source First Line: Why should'st thou make such haste abroad to be Last Line: Tell thou them, then, I meant not to offend: %what they mislike desire them they would mend Subject(s): Books AUTOR,' FR. THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF SAINT GEORGE, by G. B. Poem Source First Line: Some poets they are poore, and so am I Last Line: Let not my country think I took this paynes %in expectation of any gaines Subject(s): Books BABY IN THE LIBRARY, by EDWARD D. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Within these solemn, book-lined walls Subject(s): Books BALLAD OF YOUNG MAN THAT WOULD READ UNLAWFUL BOOKS & HOW HE WAS PUNISH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelius agrippa went out one day Last Line: How in a conjurer's books they read. Subject(s): Books; Devil; Magic; Punishment; Reading; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BALLADE OF A CONSPICUOUS OMISSION, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I admit I've made a book Last Line: Why did I leave out t. A. Daly? Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Criticism & Critics; Daly, Thomas Augustine (1871-1948); Reading BALLADE OF BIBLIOCLATS, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where is that baleful maid Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Books BALLADE OF RAILWAY NOVELS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others praise analysis Last Line: Miss braddon and gaboriau. Subject(s): Books; Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets; Reading BALLADE OF READING BAD BOOKS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sad-eyed man who yonder sits Last Line: "not to remember -- but forget." Subject(s): Books; Reading BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In torrid heats of late july Last Line: Aldines, bodonis, elzevirs? Subject(s): Books; Reading BALLADE OF THE BOOK-MAN'S PARADISE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heaven, or here, or there Last Line: Within that book-man's paradise? Subject(s): Books; Reading BALLADE OF THE TEMPTING BOOK, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Sometimes when I sit down at night Last Line: "the oxford book of english verse." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Reading BALLADE OF TRUE WISDOM, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While others are asking for beauty or fame Subject(s): Books BASHO I, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Old man in the middle of reeds suspicion of the poet Last Line: Here the poet passes forever once Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry And Poets BASTARD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Do people read poetry or does poetry Last Line: Next morning your ear is burned out. Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets BECAUSE OF LIBRARIES WE CAN SAY THESE THINGS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is holding the book close to her body Last Line: Her life starts here. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians BEFORE THE BOOK CLOSET, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Bear up under my greetings, old scrolls Last Line: Answer me, stars of god, for I grow sad Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Books BEL CANTO, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp, Subject(s): Inspiration; Books; Wisdom; Reading BEST WAY TO READ A BOOK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best way to read a book I know Last Line: For him who reads them to his boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Fathers & Sons; Reading BETWEEN BOOK LOVERS, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: Once I felt remorse because of a book Last Line: Had been strengthened even more Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MELODY (ADDRESSED TO THE ROXBURGHE CLUB), by RICHARD THOMSON Poem Source First Line: That life is a comedy oft hath been shown Last Line: And deep on thine heart her be lessons imprest Variant Title(s): The Book Of Lif Subject(s): Books BIBLIOGRAPHY; A POEM, SELS., by THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books BIBLIOLATRES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowing thyself in dust before a book Last Line: Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. Subject(s): Books; Religion; Reading; Theology BIBLIOMANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Walk down any row-past science and gardening Last Line: In which the words that wake you are written Subject(s): Bible; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Literature BIBLIOMANIA; AN EPISTLE TO RICHARD HEBER, by JOHN FERRIAR Poem Source First Line: What wild desires, what restless torments seize Last Line: Breathless, amaz'd, he seeks the distant shore, %and vows to tempt the dangerous gulph no more Subject(s): Books; Heber, Richard BIBLIOMANIAC BALLAD, by CRISTOFER VALDARFER Poem Source First Line: Ny good natur'd eame oft would preach long and sage Last Line: By large paper catalogue at hammer's decision, %as ben measures margin to enter commission Subject(s): Books BLURB FOR 'ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE', by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buy a book in brown paper Last Line: Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows Subject(s): Books BLURB FOR 'HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE', by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humptydump dublin squeaks through his norse Last Line: Humptydump dublin's grandada of rogues Subject(s): Books BODY OF BOOK, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is one way to talk about a book: Subject(s): Books & Reading BOKE OF THE SIEGE OF TROYE, SELS., by JOHN LYDGATE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books; Troy BOOK, by GROVER AMEN Poem Source First Line: The book is not Last Line: By any order of the sun Subject(s): Books BOOK, by KATE GUESS Poem Source First Line: As a child, I had two copies of each of my favorite books Subject(s): Books; Language BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Last Line: How beautiful it was until I knew Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK BATTALION, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever I go, there's a trusty battalion Subject(s): Books BOOK BORROWERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks are rather funny; if they should Last Line: Roosting on my shack. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading BOOK COVER, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I hadn't expected to find that fourth-grade book Last Line: And yet were born Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets BOOK FULL OF PICTURES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father studied theology through the mail Last Line: With my heart bleeding its branches Subject(s): Books BOOK OF LIFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything very hardy Last Line: Jews like ourselves have just begun to plant Subject(s): Books; Life BOOK OF LU T'ANG CHU, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the reign of the great emperor lu Last Line: To celebrate our good and glorious reigns. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOK OF MECHTILDE, by ANNA RUTH HENRIQUES Poem Source First Line: Many years ago, %in the land of jah, there lived a good Last Line: Has come %amen Subject(s): Death; Illumination Of Books; Job (bible); Mothers BOOK OF MY ENEMY HAS BEEN REMAINDERED, by CLIVE JAMES Poem Source Last Line: And I am glad Subject(s): Books; Hate BOOK OF QUESTIONS: 21, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when light was forged Last Line: Whether it's true I wrote it? Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets BOOK OF THE LIVING, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: The whites of my eyes are never clear Last Line: And the bright slash closes like a wound Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets BOOK OF WHO ARE WAS (INSET), by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: Effortless forgetting. %over razed underbrush Last Line: Penetrating each reading into sub-script worlds Subject(s): Books; Language; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers BOOK ON THE ARMS OF MY CHAIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the morning before me Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Books; Morning; Nature BOOK THROWN DOWN, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pray, what is this bank of which the town rings? Last Line: For those are but quacks, who mount on a bank Subject(s): Books BOOK TITLED THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY FOUND IN THE HYDRANGEA IN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A photograph ripped out Last Line: That zorabedian was an armenian is also true Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Books; Sex; Sex Role BOOK'S OBJECT, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source First Line: The kyndly entente of every gentylman Last Line: In bokes old, theyr worthy myndes to fede Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Books BOOK, BOOK, I HAVE FOUND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Book, book, I hzve found Last Line: I have walked with saints and sages Subject(s): Books BOOK-HUNTER, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: A cup of coffee, eggs, and rolls Subject(s): Books BOOK-STALLS ON THE SEINE, by CHARLES LEWIS SLATTERY Poem Source First Line: When you're in paris next, just after rain Subject(s): Books; Paris, France BOOKBINDING, by JOHN LUCKEY MCCREERY Poem Source First Line: Embodied thought enjoys a splendid rest Last Line: These, in our works, as in a casket laid, %increase the splendour by their powerful aid Subject(s): Books BOOKS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Books are alcohol to me Last Line: From the contact of the cover. Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS, by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: Death covers me with fine dust Last Line: And less a metaphor I cannot say %what haunts me Subject(s): Books BOOKS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the heart of this dark evacuated campus Subject(s): Books & Reading BOOKS, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Books, books that I love so Last Line: For one penny or two. Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS, by JOHN HIGGINS Poem Text First Line: For why, who writes such histories as these Last Line: Well fare his heart, say they, this book that wrote! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rows of letters on the page Last Line: And guess at what the letters say. Subject(s): Books; Children; Illiteracy; Reading; Childhood BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Schools; Women; Reading; Library; Librarians; Students BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Last Line: The blur of the world. Into whoever you're going to be Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Schools; Women BOOKS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fatal fruits, nurtured with tears and blood! Last Line: And aspiration more than happiness. Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Reading BOOKS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How you loved to read in the snow and when your Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians BOOKS, by FLORENCE VAN CLEVE Poem Text First Line: My neighbor's books sit primly in a row Last Line: Upon my neighbor's shelves, I pity you! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS & READING, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: These journals, notes, and missives of the dead Last Line: Save a small volume on the scholar's shelf. Subject(s): Books; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading BOOKS (IN A VOLUME OF WESTALL'S MILTON), by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: In the dim room, upon the sofa lull'd Last Line: Till with rinaldo I rush'd forth afar %where loud on zion burst the red cross war Subject(s): Books BOOKS AND FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Let me make a sunny realm around thee Last Line: Look on an empire -- mind and nature -- ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Reading BOOKS AND LOVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The books that fill the room Last Line: Killing the mistress and the lover %on an old shore Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Love BOOKS AND THE MAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the years gather round us like stern foes Last Line: But only old because they proved the best. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Literature; Osler, William, Sir (1849-1919); Reading BOOKS ARE SOLDIERS GAILY DRESSED, STANDING GRAVE AND TALL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Books are soldiers gaily dressed Last Line: Like a halting regiment, close against the wall Subject(s): Books BOOKS FALL OPEN, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A book to read Subject(s): Books BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light to the darken'd mind Last Line: Upon our upward way. Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough, enough, one said Last Line: To the purple west. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Nature; Reading BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT, by JOHN NELSON DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Four are the men who tell of the life of our saviour and master Last Line: Next is the letter by judas, and last is the great revelation. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Religion; Story-telling; Reading; Theology BOOKS POST MORTEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I care not that some other man Last Line: And pack them off to heaven! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED IN YEARS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The person who wrote yes! Last Line: Beside the road. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Books, books, books, books! Last Line: Books, books, books, books! Subject(s): Books; Reading BOOKS: A CAVEAT, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Be careful Last Line: Slam the door of that book %and fly away Subject(s): Books BOOKSELLERS' SONG (FOR ANNUAL FESTIVAL, 1839), by J. MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Brother booksellers, stationers, copyright-holders! Last Line: To drink queen and prince in a right 'royal quart-o' Subject(s): Books BOOKSHELF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to think that when I fall Last Line: Ye find a rhyme I make myself Subject(s): Books BOOKSTORE, by SYBIL KOLLAR Poem Source First Line: In the bookstore I walk quietly as if barefoot. There is the smell of dust Last Line: Of dead, painted birds Subject(s): Booksellers; Photography And Photographers; Picture Books BOOKWORLD, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dim presence of the awful night Last Line: That fill time's channel like a stream of suns! Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Reading BOOKWORM, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, boy, we'll hunt today Last Line: Ye critics! Born to vex the muse, %go mourn the grand ally you lose Subject(s): Books BOOKWORM'S CONTENT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While you converse with lords and dukes Last Line: For after all that can be said %our best acquaintance are the dead Subject(s): Books BOOKWORM'S LULLABY (PARODY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Traveller, rest! Thy journey o'er Last Line: For at dawning, to assail ye, jerry-horns won't reveille Subject(s): Books BORROWED BOOK, by JEAN CHARLES EMMANUEL NODIER Poem Source First Line: Such is the fate of borrowed books: they're lost Alternate Author Name(s): Nodier, Charles Subject(s): Books BOXED IN, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: This man: 'stevens? Never heard of him.' Last Line: Goes on, at least for you and me, %revising endlessly Subject(s): Books; Relationships BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 2. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER READING, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: Happens just once, that fable, the taking of the mother's body Last Line: Later, made believe her shape was just another place Subject(s): Books; Mothers And Daughters BRIGHTON ROCK BY GRAHAM GREENE, by BILL KNOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pinky brown must marry rose wilson Last Line: And read brighton rock by graham greene. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Reading BRIT. MUS. ADD. MS. 33219, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At th' ivory tribunall of your hand Last Line: Is her lifes wing, or her death's winding-sheet. Variant Title(s): With Some Poems Sent To A Gentlewoman (1) Subject(s): Books; Reading BURDEN OF MODERNITY': THE BOOK, THE GOD, THE CHILD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: United airlines check-in: and the line is arranged Last Line: Running through the tunnels of what was rejected Subject(s): Books; Children; God BURIAL INSURANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came each month from omaha Last Line: Grandmomma took her picture off the wall Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Books & Reading; Dead, The BY WAY OF PREFACE (A REVERIE), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A preface!' yes. It might be well Last Line: Refer the ruling ... To the reader! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading CADENCES, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The sea remains Last Line: Over the warmed earth %unthreatened by rain Subject(s): Books; Death; Graves CALLING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Summers she climbed the hawthorn tree Last Line: Tongues, the ancient language of poets Subject(s): Books; Language Poetry; Latin; Poetry And Poets CANTO 81, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; ; Relationships; Disappointment; Books; Reading CARNIVAL THE FIRST PANEL: 1967-70, SELS., by STEVE MCCAFFERY Poem Source First Line: Say like the red outline Last Line: Is radial Subject(s): Books; Writing And Writers CATULLUS I, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it I should give my little book to, Subject(s): Books & Reading CHANGING GENRES, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, Subject(s): Books; Literature; Reading CHAUCER'S A.B.C., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And touchyng the translacioun %off thys noble orysoun Last Line: That men may knowe and pleynly se %off our lady the a.B.C Subject(s): Books CHAUCERS WORDES UNTO ADAM, HIS OWN SCRIVEYN, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam scriveyn, if ever it thee bifalle Last Line: And al is thurgh thy necligence and rape. Variant Title(s): To His Scribe Adam Subject(s): Books; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Reading CHILD AND THE BOOK, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: He who gives a child a book Subject(s): Books CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With beasts and gods, above, the wall is bright. Last Line: Change, dear to all things not to themselves endeared Subject(s): Children; Books & Reading; Childhood CHRISTMAS EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, old friend in the manse by the fireside sitting Last Line: Give ye good-night, but first thank god in your prayers! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Books; Christmas; Past; Time; Reading; Nativity, The CHRYSALIS OF A BOOKWORM, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I read, o friend, no pages of old lore Subject(s): Books CICERO, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If on a journey with this book you go Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books CLIMBING UP THE STORAGE TOWER AND PRINTING RHYMES, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: A light sun and yellow clouds overhang the northern mist Last Line: A dry trunk of wood, I sadly lack that freshness after rain Subject(s): Books CLOSE THE BOOK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close the book, and leave the tale Last Line: To relate the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Reading COMFORT, by CHARLES EDMUND MERRILL JR. Poem Text First Line: With pipe and book, an old armchair Last Line: With pipe and book. Subject(s): Books; Smoking; Reading; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes COMMENTARIE ... SOLOMON, SELS., by PETER MUFFET Subject(s): Books COMPANIONS, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have companions, comrade mine Subject(s): Books COMPARISON, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a lady for my honour! Last Line: Of her court heresies; and when she's read, %cum privilegio,who dares call her wanton? Subject(s): Books COMPARISON BETWEEN A THIEF AND A BOOK, SELS., by JOHN TAYLOR (1580-1653) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A good book steals the mind from vain pretences Last Line: A book may be a title good and fair, %though in it one may find small goodness there Subject(s): Books CONCERNING THE HONOR OF BOOKS, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since honour from the honourer proceeds Last Line: Of books, that to the universal eye %show how they lived, the other where they lie Subject(s): Books CONSEQUENCES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside it's been snowing Last Line: A russian romance! Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The COSMOGRAPHY, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Who even came this way, bellow or saw Last Line: Sound as it comes. Alkali, snag snag sang %usher liberty Subject(s): Books; Korea; Language; Planets; Poetry And Poets; Universe; Writing And Writers COUNTRY SQUIRE, by TOMASO DE YRIARTE Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Iriarte, Tomaso De; Iriarte, Tomas De Subject(s): Books COURT, JANUARY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Images on the desk, the place where I read Last Line: Only painted bread is still edible, %a thought as bitter as art Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Writing And Writers COVERT STREET, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boy who lived in the library Last Line: When he came to his own, covert street %hushed in the breeze bowing the sycamores Subject(s): Books; Language; Librarians And Libraries CURIOUS BUILDER, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dream in which a butterfly crashes Last Line: Whose memories with mine must therein rest Subject(s): Audiences; Books; Curiosities And Wonders; Dreams; Poetry And Poets; Sleep CURSES FOR HE WHO BORROWS & RETURNS NOT A BOOK, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: May the kept book change to a serpent in his hands Last Line: The fine wire of the filament burnt and snapped in two Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries DANCE TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's I live in a very wise town Last Line: "than once upon a time!" Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Learning; Towns; Wisdom; Reading DAY DREAMS, by TSO SSU Poem Text First Line: When I was young I played with a soft brush Last Line: But refusing with a bow, retire to a cottage in the country. Alternate Author Name(s): T'ai-ch'ung+(1) Subject(s): Books; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Writing & Writers; Reading DE AMICITIIS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though care and strife Last Line: Without a fear my wife shall chide me! Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DE LIBRIS, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: True - there are books and books. There's gray Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Books DEDICATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book by any yet unread Last Line: And god shall bless you from above Subject(s): Books; Children; Home; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Puritans; Sickness; Women DEPARTMENT OF TALMUD, SELS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Your new book of poems just came Last Line: Furrow the nape of your neck' Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Religion DEPARTURES, by CHARLES CLIFTON Poem Source First Line: After the day's work, the book Last Line: Emperor, and how they were received Subject(s): Books; Dreams; Sleep DESCRIPTION OF A BOOK, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With that of the boke losende were the claspes Last Line: With aurum mosaicum every other lyne %was wrytin Subject(s): Books DESULTORY READING', by F. M. P. Poem Source First Line: O finest essence of delicious rest! Subject(s): Books DESULTORY STANZAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is then the final page before me spread Last Line: That treasures, yet untouched, may grace some future lay. Subject(s): Books; Reading DEUS INENARRABILIS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did ever author pen a book Last Line: That men might make a book of it. Subject(s): Books; Creative Ability; God; Writing & Writers; Reading; Inspiration; Creativity DICKENS IN CAMP, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting Last Line: This spray of western pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Books; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Pine Trees; West (u.s.); Writing & Writers; Reading; Southwest; Pacific States DOGANA, by MARCELIN PLEYNET Poem Source First Line: Dazzled %blind %turning in the gilded cage of the world Last Line: One's got to laugh in their wake %now one's got to laugh Subject(s): Books; History; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Venice, Italy DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take any life you choose and study it Last Line: And of her birth: -- . . . Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Loss; Soul; Reading; Dead, The DOMESTIC EVENT, by F. FERTIAULT Poem Source First Line: Back from a tedious holiday Subject(s): Books DOOR TO DOOR, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to the door selling knowledge Last Line: Eager to have what he had to sell Subject(s): Salespersons; Books; Knowledge EARTHLY COURSE OF JUSTICE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: We learned it in this way Last Line: Da vinci dissecting a womb Subject(s): Books; Justice; Knowledge; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Wisdom ELEGY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: They will not remember how you looked sleeping Last Line: Will say they were your friend Subject(s): Books; Death; Grief; Memory; Poetry And Poets; Solitude ENCYCLICAL ON READING ALOUD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is hard to read well, clear as the chime Last Line: Beginning was the rabble rousing word Subject(s): Books; Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings ENVOI, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dumb-born book, Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading EOTHEN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although I have not seen thee face to face Last Line: Or the last slave-bride to her lord is brought. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading EPIC, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She told him the plot of the novel then Last Line: Epic masturbation in a prison cell. Subject(s): Books; Writing And Writers EPIGRAM, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because with bought books, sir, your study's fraught Last Line: The merchant now, the fiddler the next day. Subject(s): Books; Reading EPIGRAM, by EUENUS Poem Source First Line: Pest of the muses, devourer of pages, in crannies that lurkest Subject(s): Books EPIGRAM ON GEORGE I'S GIFT OF BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN TRAPP Poem Text First Line: King george observing, with judicious eyes Last Line: How much that loyal body wanted learning. Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading EPIGRAM: 11, 107. TO SEPTICIANUS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You've returned me my book all unrolled to the end Last Line: That's the way I've read four of yours Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books EPILOGUE, by SAMUEL FOSTER DAMON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think that I shall live again Last Line: I shall return my own book to its shelf. Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, S. Foster Subject(s): Books; Reading EPISTLE TO ALL READERS, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in your hand you had this pamphlet caught Last Line: For I had liefe you did sit down and whistle, %as reading, not to read. So ends th' epistle Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Books EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine Last Line: Still to charm those who charm the world beside. Variant Title(s): To Miss Blout, With The Works Of Voiture Subject(s): Books; Voiture, Vincent De (1598-1648); Reading EPITAPH FOR A CONDEMNED BOOK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader placid and bucolic / sober, guileless man of the good Last Line: Pity me! . . . If not, be damned! Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs; Reading ERRATA MYSTAGOGIA, by BRUCE BEASLEY Poem Source First Line: There, in the misprints and vacant Last Line: Inserted in the place of every page Subject(s): Books; Errors ERRATA: AN ECLOGUE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This text is not what it should be Last Line: Until the masterpiece is ... Pulped! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading ESTEEMING THE BIBLE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This holy book I'd rather own Last Line: Their tears shall cease to flow. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outlying districts where we know something Last Line: And open it in my face. You knew that Subject(s): Books; Reading EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outlying districts where we know something Last Line: And open it in my face. You knew that Subject(s): Books EX LIBRIS, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man that is born of woman finds a charm Subject(s): Books EX LIBRIS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an old book at even as I read Last Line: Interpret not the messenger aright. Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The EXCERPT FROM MANNIFEST MANNERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Native american indian literatures have been over burdened with Last Line: Ries, are marooned as obscure moral simulations in translations Subject(s): Anthropology; Books; Native Americans - Education; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting EXTRACTS FROM THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR CAYENNE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! For the hack can scatter into flight Last Line: There'd be a world's best literature indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Love; Reading FACE THE ORIENT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need to be dancing over the birth Last Line: Look here. The horizon is the book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading FAIRE AND FOWLE WEATHER, SELS., by JOHN TAYLOR (1580-1653) Poet Analysis Subject(s): Books FALL OF ROME, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: Autumn, and the brilliant leaves tumble Last Line: He will use on cold mornings %to warm his hands Subject(s): Books; History; Librarians And Libraries FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: In answer to what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ Last Line: Of brisker tempers—let us next enquire. Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FANNY: 56, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oxonian bristed! Many a foolscap page Last Line: You'll find the books on any auction shelf Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Books; Writing And Writers FAST AND LOOSE, by JOHN TAYLOR (1580-1653) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Fast bind, fast find; my bible was well bound Last Line: Twas loose for him, although 'twas bound for me Subject(s): Books FATHER GOOSE, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mother goose became quite new Last Line: The tales of father goose. Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Books; Geese; Parents; Reading; Parenthood FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES' MINIONS RANSACK ... LIBRARIES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Mephisto plied faust with rare books Last Line: Of transmitting original sin Subject(s): Books; Devil; Faust FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Last Line: Found, in doubled vision no cost %of time or death shall blind Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms And Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968) FEBRUARY MORNING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man takes a nap Last Line: The snow falls all day long. Subject(s): Books; February; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Morning; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Reading FICTION AND THE READING PUBLIC, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a thrill, says the reader Subject(s): Books; Reading FICTION AND THE READING PUBLIC, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a thrill, says the reader Last Line: Just please me for two generations - %you'll be 'truly great' Subject(s): Books FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PROEM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cross was made all of red Last Line: And this game rule and lead %and bring it to a good end Subject(s): Books FIFTY-THREE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've already had a lot of them Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age; Books; Trees; Reading FIRST READER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can see them standing politely on the wide pages Subject(s): Books & Reading FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLUENCY, by ADELIA PRADO Poem Source First Line: I wrote a book, thank the lord Last Line: As before, thank the lord Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets FOLLY IN PRINT, SELS., by ? RAYMOND Subject(s): Books FOR A CHILD'S BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My book is such a dainty thing Last Line: You'll have a nest all to yourself. Subject(s): Books; Children; January; Reading; Childhood FOR A LADY WHO LOVES SCHUBERT, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: After a week in hell Last Line: For a lady who loves schubert Subject(s): Books; Composers; Novels And Novelists; Poetry And Poets; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) FOREWORD, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an old book I find the words of all Last Line: The book? You know it well—the human heart! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Reading FORGOTTEN BOOKS, by THOMAS STEPHENS COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Hid by the garret's dust, and lost Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens Subject(s): Books FOUR BUTS FOR ALFRED C. KINSEY, by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: South indiana's flat and tidy Last Line: He's now considered standard reading Subject(s): Books; Death; Memory FOURTEEN PAGES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930); Books & Reading FRAGMENT (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom should I choose for my judge? The earnest, impersonal reader Last Line: Each with a different tone, compleat or in musical fragments. Subject(s): Books; Reading FRIAR JEROME'S BEAUTIFUL BOOK; A.D. 1200, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friar jerome, for some slight sin Last Line: The volume was not writ in vain! Subject(s): Books; Reading FRIENDS OF THALES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: They sat near the wine-black water Last Line: The slowest sense of a start Subject(s): Books; Writing And Writers FROM THE FLYLEAF OF THE ROWFANT MONTAIGNE, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of yore, when books were few and fine Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Books FROM THE PRAGMATIC SANCTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May this volume continue in motion Last Line: Till an ant has drunk up the ocean, %or a tortoise has crawl'd round the world Subject(s): Books FUTILE QUESTION, by DEZSO TANDORI Poem Source First Line: Why does he stand there, this short penguin Last Line: The real question: what could he do instead? Subject(s): Animals; Penguins; Picture Books; Statues GARDEN READING, by SYLVIANE DUPUIS Poem Source First Line: In the midst of this digest of the universe Last Line: As pulsating blood or circulation of breath %is to the heart.) Subject(s): Books; Gardens And Gardening GAS OR NOVOCAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I sit, reading the stoic Last Line: The senses, and the right / to homosexuality Subject(s): Books; Latin; Reading GAS OR NOVOCAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I sit, reading the stoic Last Line: The senses, and the right %to homosexuality Subject(s): Books; Latin GENIZA, by DANIEL KUNITZ Poem Source First Line: Of all the notes, scraps and scribbles Last Line: To conjugate our fractured hope Subject(s): Books GENTLE READER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late in the night when I should be asleep Last Line: Saying like molly, yes, yes, yes o yes Subject(s): Books & Reading; Poetry & Poets GEORGI BORISOV IN PARIS, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The slavic poet sips his morning vodka, his mind Last Line: But this has only sharpened his worry about the words Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets GHOSTS IN A LIBRARY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose, when now the house is dumb Subject(s): Books GINGKO, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: When we were young, we gathered leaves for a big book for Last Line: And then your memory rustles when the wind blows Subject(s): Books; Gingko Trees; Leaves GIVING AWAY BOOKS: A RHAPSODY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Let the ink flow between your fingers Last Line: The paramour of the moving air %just waiting to be given away? Subject(s): Books GOD BLESS THE GIDEONS, OR THERE'S ALWAYS KING JAMES VERSION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High near the mountain or low near the ocean Last Line: Golden pens and royalties must, %as chimney sweepers, come to dust Subject(s): Books GOD OF ISRAEL, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES Poem Source First Line: The god of israel is not rich Last Line: Letters in love with letters Subject(s): Books; Jews; Language GOD'S BOOK, by EDGAR DANIEL KRAMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God spreads a book before my eyes Last Line: Of trees and brooks and fragrant sod. Subject(s): Books; God; Reading GODSPEED TO HIS BOOK, by JAMES I Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little treatise, naked of eloquence Alternate Author Name(s): James Vi, King Of Scotland; James I Of England Subject(s): Books GOE, LITTLE BOOKE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book! The world is wide Subject(s): Books GOLDEN FICTION, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Look! The fires unfold Last Line: The traitor sits in his room and writes what the voices tell him Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers GOLDEN SPURS, by VIRGINIA SCOTT MINER Poem Source First Line: Books are bridges Subject(s): Books GRASSY MEADOW SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In the grassy meadow school Last Line: That the best thing is to grow! Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Scholarship & Scholars; Schools; Summer; Reading; Students GREEN LAMPSHADE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the page of all the books Subject(s): Books; Reading GROWING UP, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am reading li po. The t.V. Is on Last Line: Then turn it off and go on reading Subject(s): Television; Maturity; Books HALF HOURS WITH THE CLASSICS, by H. J. DEBURGH Poem Text First Line: Ah, those hours when by-gone sages Last Line: Somewhat doubtful quantities. Subject(s): Books; Past; Reading HALOS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four tiny folk Last Line: And less lonely. Variant Title(s): Less Lonely Subject(s): Books; Dwarfs; Hats; Reading HAPPINESS THROUGH THE YEAR, by J. MARGARET CRUTE ASHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: Give me a good book Last Line: And life seems just only begun. Subject(s): Books; Nature; Seasons; Reading HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGETITON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, reading the anthology Last Line: Your act is vocal still. Men grow deaf Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs HE WAS A VISITOR, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast flesh / as the song into the room is cast Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Books; Reading HEAT, 1994, by CHRISTINE E. MONTROSS Poem Source First Line: In sarajevo they are burning books Last Line: Offering herself instead, wishing she could burn Subject(s): Books; Heat; Sarajevo, Bosnia HECTOR BOYSE'S CHRONICLE, SELS., by HECTOR BOECE Subject(s): Books HELEN'S FACE A BOOK, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helen's face is like a book Last Line: Underneath her lashes? Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Books; Faces; Women; Reading HER LOST BOOK, PART II, SELECTION, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wrote a book. Lost to us Subject(s): Books HERE IS MUSIC: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: BEFORE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as my background. Books Last Line: Of e'er-increasing anger, ice-cold, hun-ward hate. Subject(s): Books; History; Libraries & Librarians; Scholarship & Scholars; Youth; Reading; Historians HERE IS MUSIS: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: AFTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as our background. Books Last Line: All life still brings ... True, blest begetter of these songs! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Old Age; Reading HIS BOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye that in youth desire to know Last Line: For they that on this book doth look %shall find the matter fine Subject(s): Books HIS BOOK'S PATRON, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To whom shalt thou be dedicate? Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books HIS BOOKSELLER'S ADDRESS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You that would have my books to fare Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books HIS HIEROGLYPHS, by GRACE KIESS SWIGGETT Poem Text First Line: Like phantom symbols placed throughout the world Last Line: And then, remodel life by god's own plan. Subject(s): Books; God; Writing & Writers; Reading HIS VIGIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close the book and dim the light Last Line: Just as god were sitting here. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; God; Night; Reading; Bedtime HISTORY BOOKS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is, their authors, leave out Subject(s): Books; History; Reading; Historians HORN-BOOK (WRITTEN UNDER A FIT OF THE GOUT), by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Ancient book, most venerable code! Last Line: Here let me cease, my hobbling numbers stop, %and at thy handle, hang my crutches up Subject(s): Books HOW CAN A BODY CARRY, by MARGARET AHO Poem Source First Line: Such light? I remember how we read Last Line: Nail with its small moon %the only light we read by Subject(s): Birth; Books; Reproductive System HOW TO KILL BOOKWORMS, by JOHN F. M. DOVASTON Poem Source First Line: There is a sort of busy worm Last Line: Tis but to let their books be read, %and bid the worms defiance Subject(s): Books HOW TO READ ME, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To turn my volumes o'er nor find Last Line: And all my joys but dreamt. Subject(s): Books; Reading HUITAINS; FOR ANDREW LANG'S 'THE LIBRARY', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Books, books again, and books once more! Last Line: Reprint them at the press of clark. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Lang, Andrew (1844-1912); Reading HUMMINGBIRD, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Translate %praise beasts and their worthy marks Last Line: Experiment is each scroll of white pages joined together Subject(s): Art And Artists; Books; Hummingbirds; Writing And Writers HYSTORY ... AND DESTRUCCYON OF TROYE, SELS., by RICHARD PYNSON Subject(s): Books; Troy I AM IN A NOVEL, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel by a friend of mine Last Line: Such a funny pup in me Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Books I CANNOT GET A PUBLISHER, by ROBERT GILFILLAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot get a publisher, my case is very hard Last Line: Big with a summer tragedy, I'll try the field again Subject(s): Books I KNOW A MAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: I know a man who thinks he's poor Last Line: And three good books to read Subject(s): Friendship; Books I LIVE BENEATH A GREEN CLIFF, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Beneath the trees I mumble - reading aloud Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Books; Zen Buddhism I LOST A WORLD THE OTHER DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh find it – sir – for me! Subject(s): Books; Loss I LOVED YOU ONCE BY PUSHKIN, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: I wish I had a copy Last Line: There could be such a thing - %I would leave you a copy Subject(s): Books; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Writing And Writers I PREFER THE SKYLINE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a shelf of books Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Books; Nature I SAW A GREAT BUILDING WITH MANY STOREYS PILED HIGH, by TONY CHARLES Poem Source Last Line: I listened awhile and I came away wiser Subject(s): Books; Riddles I WRITE TO TELL, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I write to tell, when I have ceased to be Last Line: And he gathers me, of all most favored, to his breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading I'VE GOT A NEW BOOK FROM MY GRANDFATHER HYDE, by LEROY F. JACKSON Poem Source Last Line: For the book that I got from my grandfather hyde Subject(s): Books I'VE JUST SEEN MRS. HOPKINS-AND READ HER THE LINES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For both reading-and pictures. Good bye. Edward lear Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Printing And Printers; Rhyme IDEA: 49, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write Last Line: Come thou, and read, admire, applaud my lines. Subject(s): Books; Reading IF EVERYTHING HAPPENS THAT CAN'T BE DONE, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We're wonderful one times one Subject(s): Books IMITATION OF HORACE: EPISTLE 20, BOOK 1, by MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks, oh vain, ill-judging book! Last Line: Now then your venturous course pursue: %go, my delight! Dearbook, adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Monk Subject(s): Books IN A COPY OF 'FOUR FORSYTE STORIES', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An author who has what is called a vogue Last Line: "the more his pinnacle in air he'll see!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Books; Reading IN A LIBRARY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealth of silence, that is all. The air Last Line: The valor, bloom, and wisdom of a world. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Librarians & Libraries; Life; Silence; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY, by LENORE MAUDE CROUDACE Poem Text First Line: Silence more eloquent than noise or sound Last Line: For thought transcending our little human span. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis Last Line: And tantalize, just so. Subject(s): Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290); Books; Reading IN A LIBRARY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: They left me there Last Line: And shook my head. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading IN A LIBRARY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A miracle - that man should learn to fill Last Line: For them they talk and sing like uncaged birds. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A MONSOON SPRING, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Here, wind shreds petals, rain Last Line: Wash books away, rain %ruins chrysanthemums Subject(s): Books; Monsoons; Spring IN AN ALBUM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The misspelt scrawl, upon the wall Last Line: "in vain, ""this lowell, who was he?" Subject(s): Books; Reading IN BED WITH A BOOK, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In police procedurals they are dying all over town, Subject(s): Books; Crime & Criminals; Reading IN COMMENDATION OF GEORGE GASCOIGNE'S STEEL GLASS (1576), by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste Last Line: I fear me much, shall hardly reach so high. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Books; Gascoigne, George (1525-1577); Reading IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Watch o'er the happier of his lives: say, does he ewake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures; Reading; Movies; Cinema IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Say, does he wake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures IN PRAISE OF ROGER ASCHAM'S LATIN GRAMMAR, by THOMAS BLUNDEVILLE Poem Source First Line: Of english books as I could find Last Line: As if I lackt I would not lette, %to buy this book for forty pence Subject(s): Books IN THE AFTERNOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You in the hammock; and I, near Last Line: Kiss me again, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Books; Hammocks; Kisses; Reading IN THE ALBUM OF LUCY BARTON, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little book, surnamed of white Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Books IN THE LAND OF OZ, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: They tell me Last Line: In the land of oz things are different. %how could judy garland %be so wrong? Subject(s): Books; Censorship; Story-telling; Witchcraft And Witches IN THE LIBRARY, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Like cells in a prison Last Line: The lad is prospero. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN THE LIBRARY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the oriels one by one Last Line: Premonitions of the morn! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Speech; Reading; Oratory; Orators IN THE LIBRARY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There's a book called Subject(s): Books; Angels; Reading IN THE NEW WORLD, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: In that dream a boy my age rose from sleep Last Line: Oh spirits of anger, pride, take me back %into the distant tribes; dream me again Subject(s): Books; Dreams; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Poetry And Poets IN THE RAGING BALANCE; I.M. JACK CLARKE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Energy, the man said, equals Last Line: Think of it it couldn't possibly be Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading IN THE SHADOWS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent music of the flowers Last Line: Against my name which was a shade. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Reading IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so I closed that book, Subject(s): Books & Reading; Conduct Of Life INCIDENT ABOUT WHICH I WILL NOT BE SPEAKING, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Spark. The crows are coughing in the trees Last Line: I am reading. I am not the person telling this story Subject(s): Books; Nature INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way the sun will slant Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America INSCRIPTION FOR A LIBRARY, by GEORGE SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: Put on the cowl, take up thy staff! Last Line: Across the ancient aisles of time. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reading INSCRIPTION FOR BOOKS, by BERNARD DE LA MONNOYE Poem Text First Line: Here by our master ranged in file Last Line: Or, still more likely, send to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): La Monnoye, Bernard De; Monnoye, Bernard De La Subject(s): Books; Reading INVECTIVE AGAINST WHOREDOM, SELS., by THOMAS BECON Subject(s): Books INVOCATION IN A LIBRARY, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Source First Line: O brotherhood, with bay-crowned brows undaunted Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Books ITER BOREALE, SELS., by ROBERT WILD Subject(s): Books IZAAC WALTON, COTTON, AND WILLIAM OLDWAYS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son cotton! These light idle brooks Last Line: Just like these idle waves, son cotton! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Literature; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers; Reading JOB 18, 2, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: When will you ever finish using words? Last Line: In the desert Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language JOHN MILTON STOPS BY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Blake wrote only when the whirl of angels Last Line: Of old memories where most things can be told Subject(s): Books; Milton, John (1608-1674) JOTTINGS; BOOKS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only on the days when my life has ebbed Last Line: And read what never yet was told in ink. Subject(s): Books; Reading JUST AS GOOD, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You write a book that makes a hit; it's full Last Line: Letters. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading KENTUCKY, 1833, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is sunday, day of roughhousing. We are let out in the woods Last Line: If we could read, would change our lives Subject(s): Slavery; Books & Reading L'ENVOY, by ROBERT COPLAND Poem Source First Line: Go, lytel quayre, to every degree Last Line: None in this world of welth can be sure Subject(s): Books LA LUTRIN, SELS., by NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Boileau, Nicolas Subject(s): Books LADY OF LETTERS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: You have read her work Last Line: When you feel the mockery of the aplause, the empty smiles of the ladies of letters Subject(s): Books; Letters; Poetry And Poets LE LIVRE, SELS., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: End %conscience Last Line: And the book Subject(s): Books LE TROIS PELERINAGES, by GUILLAUME DE DEGUILLEVILLE Poem Source First Line: And of the tyme playnly and of the date Last Line: My lord [salisbury] that tyme beyng at parys Subject(s): Books LEDGER DOMAIN, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A morning's silver announces sky Subject(s): Cadiot, Olivier; Language; Books LENDING LIBRARY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the valentines and birthday greetings Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Women; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians LESSER EPISTLES: TO BERNARD LINTOTT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when some skilful cook, to please each guest Last Line: And tonson yield to lintott's lofty name. Subject(s): Books; Lintot, Barnaby Bernard (1675-1736); Reading LET MY VERSE NOT LIVE BEYOND ME, by SELENE STEESE Poem Source First Line: If the dark marks upon the white page Last Line: Let my verse not live beyond me but within Subject(s): Books; Pens And Pencils; Writing And Writers LETTER TO HITLER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last winter we were Last Line: Out all over the room! Subject(s): Books; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); War LIBRARY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book saved my life. Subject(s): Books & Reading LIBRARY, by BARBARA A. HUFF Poem Source First Line: It looks like any building Last Line: The wonderment of books Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries LIFE OF -, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So there we were stuck %in alassio all that rotten winter Last Line: Previewed there, just as it was forging %forth - eye to eye with the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Books; Boredom LIGHT BY WHICH I READ, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One does not turn to the rose for shade, nor the charred song of the redwing for solace - see more a Subject(s): Books; Reading LIGHT MOVEMENTS KNOW SOUND, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Gravity, form, or fur Last Line: As man, for things %repute language Subject(s): Books; Language; Translating And Interpreting LIKE GOD, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hover above the page staring down Last Line: The book in your hands, like god reading Subject(s): Books; God; Reading LIKE GOD, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hover above the page staring down Last Line: Been hovering above this page, holding %the book in your hands, like god, reading Subject(s): Books; God LIKE ROBINSON CRUSOE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I too live on an island Last Line: Whatever once was meant by it, them Subject(s): Books; Story-telling; Writing And Writers LINES, by ELIZABETH J. EAMES Poem Text First Line: Of making many books there is no end' Last Line: That all the days of man's short life are vanity! Subject(s): Books; Wisdom; Reading LINES FER ISAAC BRADWELL, OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND., by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through fire and flood this book has passed Last Line: Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Reading LINES FOR AN ECCENTRIC'S BOOK PLATE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To use my books all friends are bid Last Line: Than I -- why don't return it! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Reading LINES HAVE THEIR LININGS, AND BOOKES THEIR BUCKRAM, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in our clothes, so likewise he who lookes Last Line: Shall find much farcing buckram in our books. Subject(s): Books; Reading LINES OFTEN WRITTEN IN A BOOK TO REMIND READERS TO RETURN IT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thys boke is one and godes kors ys anoder Last Line: They that take the on, god gefe them the toder Subject(s): Books LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY C.R. LESLIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pride of my country! I delight Last Line: Till ends his reign, a third like thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Picture Books; Portraits; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Leslie, C. R.; Art Gallerys LINES WRITTEN IN A COMMONPLACE BOOK, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet and gentle maiden Last Line: An earnest of the skies! Subject(s): Books; Women; Youth; Reading LINES WRITTEN IN THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF 'FROM THE FOUR WINDS', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote this book and certify Last Line: I write these words, and send her out. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading LISTEN HARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough and you can hear Last Line: Listen to the sound of the book when it closes Subject(s): Books; Sound; Reading LITERACY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Your face is a story, she said Last Line: I'm illiterate Subject(s): Books; Faces; Relationships LITERARY, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by associated stuffed shirts & Subject(s): Books & Reading LITERARY LABORATORY, by JOHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Lo! In that quiet and contracted room Last Line: Clears it, sublimes it, till it flows refined %from his alembic crucible of mind Subject(s): Books LITERATURE AND NATURE, by SAMUEL WADDINGTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mid cambrian heights around dolgelly vale Subject(s): Books LITTLE TESTAMENT, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To wake on my fortieth birthday Last Line: Less than I mean, all I can say Subject(s): Books; Family Life; Love; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers LOGIC, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palmam qui meruit ferat'-he who wins the Last Line: Are wise. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading LONDON BOOKSELLERS; OR 'WHAT'S IN A NAME?' (1833), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Long hail to longman and his longer co. Last Line: One for his nob will do - so take it, bumpus! Subject(s): Books LOOK--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The moon thumbs through the book of the night Last Line: A thick line. Right to you. %--look Subject(s): Books LOOKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What knowledge do my ears provide Last Line: Stirs to her treachery. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Knowledge; Learning; Sight; Reading LOST LANGUAGE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How and where shall we begin to Last Line: Looking out at the sea Subject(s): Books; Language; Speech; Tongues; Writing And Writers LOVE AND BOOKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Still dumb thou sittest, with a downcast look Subject(s): Books LOVE'S INTERPRETATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A maiden sat beside the sea Last Line: Fall in love with the author of the book! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading LOVE'S NIGHTINGALE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now 'tis neither may nor june Last Line: Shall sitt and sing. Variant Title(s): With Some Poems Sent To A Gentlewoman (2) Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Reading MAGIC, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Take some little words Last Line: Made from little words. Subject(s): Books; September; Story-telling; Reading MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER MOTHER FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Dearest mum. I'm on the site at gleann mor Last Line: P.S. Again-consult the map I made you, mum! Subject(s): Books; Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO IAIN FRASER FROM INVERNESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Dear mr fraser: please consider this request Last Line: I can meet with you at any time. %most sincerely, mairi macintyre Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MANIA, by MARY WINTERS Poem Source First Line: I was forced to give up reading because I couldn't stop Last Line: I am rebuilding my life a day at a time Subject(s): Books; Insanity MANUSCRIPT IN THE DRAWER, by LOURDES ESPINOLA Poem Source First Line: There is a book in a state of grace Last Line: Its destiny, unkown, like our own Subject(s): Books MANY BOOKS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However, many books, %wise men have said, are wearisome Last Line: And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, %as children gathering pebbles on the shore Subject(s): Books MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Last Line: In colour, with their eyelids shut Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language MASTIVE, SELS., by HENRY PARROTT Subject(s): Books MCARONI BALLADS: ARGUMENT, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: My title has a foreign look Last Line: Mcaroni? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Books; Reading MEA CULPA, by HELEN FOGWILL PORTER Poem Source First Line: He talked with authority Last Line: Stressed out and stressless %lying side by side Subject(s): Anxiety; Books MEDITATION, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diving within myself, I found Last Line: But fell, and vanished into sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677); Reading MEDITATION ON SOME BOOKSHELVES SHORTLY TO BE BUILT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend carpenter, in re those shelves of mine Last Line: And his good name will surely be included! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Carpenters; Reading MEDLEY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ignorance came in stones of gold Subject(s): Ignorance; Books; Crimes & Criminals; Dullness; Stupdity; Reading METAMORPHOSES, SELS., by LUCIUS APULEIUS Alternate Author Name(s): Apuleius Of Madaura Variant Title(s): The Golden As Subject(s): Books MISAPPLIED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fie! What a sinful waste it is to use Last Line: We need fine paper for racine and poe! Subject(s): Books; Reading MISS FRASER'S ALBUM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My album's open; come and see Last Line: One blended whole combining Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Picture Books MISSING RICHARD, by JOSEPH+(2) GREEN Poem Source First Line: Is like reaching for a book Last Line: The many stories in it I still meant to read Subject(s): Books MODERN LIBRARY, SELS., by W. KING Poem Source First Line: To please the eye, the highest space Last Line: And claim'd a station on his shelves, %who scorn'd each sot who dool'd in twelves Subject(s): Books MODERN LIBRARY, SELS., by THOMAS NEWCOMB Poem Source First Line: To please the eye, the highest space Last Line: And claim'd a station on his shelves, %who scorn'd each sot who dool'd in twelves Subject(s): Books MORAL EMBLEMS I: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, your soul upraise to see Last Line: He will regret it when he's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading MORAL EMBLEMS I: 4, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See in the print, how moved by whim Last Line: Joys to observe his bold resistance. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading MORAL EMBLEMS I: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark, printed on the opposing page Last Line: By dwelling on that mangled body. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading MUSEUM: LIMITS (OR GOOD-BYES), by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a line of verlaine's that I'm not going to Last Line: Death invades me, constantly Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) MUSICAL CONSORT, SELS., by THOMAS CHURCHYARD Poet Analysis Subject(s): Books MUTATIS MUTANDIS, by MARGARET VAN S. RICE Poem Text First Line: By care and strife Last Line: Down where (to say the least) it's summer. Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY BOOK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I drink myself to death Last Line: A right, a glory and a song. Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading MY BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A little gate my book can be Last Line: Afar in foreign fields I roam. Subject(s): Books; February; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips MY BOOK HOLDS MANY STORIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My book holds many stories, wrapped tightly in itself Last Line: Are sailing on a fairy sea or floating in the sky. Subject(s): Books; January; Reading MY BOOKS, by FRANCIS BENNOCH Poem Source First Line: I love my books as drinkers love their wine Subject(s): Books MY BOOKS, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: When falls the winter snow I little care nor yet what Last Line: With happiness anew. Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They dwell in the odour of camphor Last Line: But those are the books I read. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the folks have gone to bed Subject(s): Books MY BOOKS, by WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: On my study shelves they stand Subject(s): Books MY BOOKS, by NATHAN M. LEVY Poem Source First Line: These are my books- a burton old Subject(s): Books MY BOOKS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Last Line: In which I walked, now clouded and confused. Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All round the room my silent servants wait Last Line: And meditate upon your verse that flows, %and fertilizes wheresoe'er it goes Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Books MY BOOKS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Well I love these books of mine Last Line: Have been so useful and so pleasant? Subject(s): Books; Reading MY BOOKS, by UNKNOWN+112 Poem Source First Line: My benison upon you, books Last Line: While ye lie about my room, %looking down from friendly nooks? %my benison upon you, books! Subject(s): Books MY BOOKS AND I, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books and I are good old pals Last Line: I'm stronger than before. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Religion; Reading; Theology MY GHOSTS, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is filled with ghosts Last Line: In payment for my reverent love of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Ghosts; Supernatural; Reading MY JOURNAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dreary evening Last Line: And my eyes are dim to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Books; Life; Tears; Time; Reading MY LIBRARY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrine of my mind, my library! Last Line: Hence to the outer world good night! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Libraries & Librarians; Life; Love; Solitude; Reading; Loneliness MY LOVE TO JOHN TAYLOR AND HIS NAVY, by F. MASON Poem Source First Line: If art and nature both in one combine Last Line: That whilst the ocean doth contain a billow %thou and thy book shall never have a fellow Subject(s): Books MY MASTERPIECE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's slim and trim and bound in blue Last Line: That little book I never wrote. Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading MY SCRAPBOOK, by M. ANNETTE PAPAYANAKOS Poem Text First Line: I wander away to my little secluded brook Last Line: Will end the mystery veiling the deep. Subject(s): Books; Reading MY SECRET LIFE, by NATASHA SAJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That gent in victoria's england who screwed Last Line: The thought of drowning is a century away Subject(s): Biography; Books; Childhood Memories MY SHAKESPERE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With beveled binding, with uncut edge Subject(s): Books MY UPPER SHELVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close at my feet in stolid rows they sit Last Line: So long as love is love and blooms a sole red rose! Subject(s): Books; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Graves; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Tombs; Tombstones NATURAL STATE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books & Reading NATURE, by HAZEL HANNA Poem Text First Line: One summer day I chanced to stray Last Line: In nature's lovely bowers? Subject(s): Books; Reading NEAR MISS HAIKU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Order out of chaos equals frogs Last Line: Opens the book Subject(s): Books; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Violins; Reading NEW BOOK, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you there never Last Line: For you because the name %of the new book is yours Subject(s): Books NIGHTHOUR, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: I write %the way my kind does Last Line: Only the poet holds still %and peels the skin off the hours %clock, poet, frog, %and despises time Subject(s): Books; Language; Poetry And Poets; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers NO DETACHMENT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Step out snow and sunshine Last Line: Flashed out of the void today Subject(s): Books; New York Times (newspaper); Reading NONSENSE COOKERY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our readers will be interested in the following communications from Last Line: Loose, and the whole process may be considered as finished Subject(s): Books; Botany And Botanists; Cakes; Cooking And Cooks; Food And Eating NOOK AND A BOOK, by WILLIAM FREELAND Poem Source First Line: Give me a nook and a book Subject(s): Books NOT TOO MUCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Don't say too much, he said Last Line: And your voice offered to the stars %three songs of peace. Subject(s): Books; Conversation; Friendship NOTEBOOK VERSION, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Flicking through my notebook %I come across 'black butterflies' Last Line: This is the time they stand the test of Subject(s): Books; Editors; Poetry And Poets NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Even when reading, strange things take place Last Line: Left standing at break of day, we are learning %to move about in time Subject(s): Books; Life NOW VAGUELY REMEMBERING THE LONG AGO YOUNG COMMUNION WITH THE SUN, by JOHN TAGLIABUE Poem Source First Line: After reading for many hours Last Line: Adam and eve dancing naked Subject(s): Books NURSE READS A BOOK OF LUMINOUS THINGS, by ELIZABETH TIBBETTS Poem Source First Line: She picks it up in stray moments Last Line: Beside him when anything is possible Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets NYMPHA LIBERTHRIS, SELS., by CLEMENT BARKSDALE Subject(s): Books O FOR A BOOKE AND A SHADIE NOOKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: For a jollie goode booke, whereon to looke, %is better to me than golde Subject(s): Books O HADA CIBERNETICA, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: When the brain is like a grain of sand Last Line: Nothing's stayed in the head Subject(s): Books; Knowledge OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: THE WRITER TO HIS BOOK, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither thus hastes my little book so fast? Last Line: Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame. Subject(s): Books; Reading OF A NEW MARRIED STUDENT THAT PLAYED LOOSE AND FAST, by THOMAS MORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A student, at his book so placed Last Line: In knitting of himself so fast, %himself he hath undone Subject(s): Books OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END, by JR. RICHARD MYERS PEABODY Poem Source First Line: All the words ever written Subject(s): Books OF MODERN BOOKS (A PANTOUM), by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of making many books there is no end Last Line: Each day new manuscripts are being penned! Subject(s): Books OF WHITMAN BROOKS, by DAVID MENZIES Poem Source First Line: Everything is wrong %and yet it's not so wrong Last Line: The piling years. Evian is for the rest Subject(s): Books; Death; History; Writing And Writers OLD BOOKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I must confess I love old books! Subject(s): Books OLD BOOKS ARE BEST, by BEVERLY CHEW Poem Text First Line: Old books are best! With what delight Last Line: Beverly chew. Subject(s): Books; Reading OLD BOOKS IN HEAVEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven would lose its heavenly looks Last Line: Beneath my arm! Subject(s): Books; Heaven; Reading; Paradise OLD BOOKS, FRESH FLOWERS, by JOSEPH BOULMIER Poem Source First Line: Alone, at home, I dwell, content and free Subject(s): Books OLD STORY BOOKS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Old story books! Old story books! We owe ye much, old friends Last Line: And fair suspicion may arise - that yet my spirit grieves %for dear 'old mother hubbard's god' and ' Subject(s): Books OLD SUSAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When susan's work was done, she'd sit Last Line: And rooted in romance remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Books; Reading OLIVER LEAFE, SELS., by ALEXANDER TOP Subject(s): Books ON 'CORYAT'S CRUDITIES,' FR. THE WORLD'S EIGHT WONDER, by JOHN TAYLOR (1580-1653) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Tom coriat, I have seen thy crudities Last Line: But more to write, but to intrude - it is %and therefore wisdom to conclude - it is Subject(s): Books ON A BOX CONTAINING HIS OWN WORKS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I break up cypress and make a book-box Last Line: To be left by them to give to my grandchildren. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Books; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Writing & Writers; Reading ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading ON AN INSCRIPTION, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man unknown this volume gave Subject(s): Books ON ANDREW TORAQUEAU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies a man, who, drinking only water Last Line: The world would scarce have held his books and brats Subject(s): Books ON BEING FORCED TO PART WITH HIS LIBRARY FOR BENEFIT OF HIS CREDITORS, by WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one who destined from his friends to part Last Line: And kindred spirits meet to part no more. Subject(s): Books; Debt; Grief; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness ON BOOKS, TO THE LADY LUCY COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And though books, madam, cannot make this mind Last Line: Encheer it most, and most our spirits inflame %to thoughts of glory, and to worthy ends Subject(s): Books ON CERTAIN BOOKS (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faith and fixt hope these pages may peruse Last Line: Shall shake it into dust, like older lies. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON CERTAIN BOOKS (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My friend, 'tis motive power one needs Last Line: While smart theosophies lose heart and die. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON EXPECTING SOME BOOKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: To-morrow they will come. I know Last Line: Together in one room with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON FINDING A BOOK, WHICH HAD BEEN LONG LAID BY, by CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Delight of childhood, as I once again Last Line: O'er evening's melancholy bosom roll; %alas, as unsubstantial too, as they! Subject(s): Books ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I traveled in the realms of gold Last Line: Silent, upon a peak in darien. Variant Title(s): To The Adventurous Subject(s): Books; Chapman, George (1559-1634); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking ON GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOK, THE TEMPLE, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know you, fair, on what you look Last Line: Of your white hand, they are mine. Subject(s): Books; Herbert, George (1593-1633); Reading ON HIS BOOKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bound (almost) now of my book I see Last Line: Are lost, and theirs, in everlasting night. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON HIS BOOKS, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, I hope it may be said Last Line: His sins were scarlet, but his books were red Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Books & Reading ON LOOKING AT A COPY FO ALICE MEYNELL'S POEMS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this greying page you wrote Last Line: The living have so much to do Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Meynell, Alice (1847-1922); Books; Life ON MY FOURTEENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY I RIDE ON TRAINS, by CORNELIA VEENENDAAL Poem Source First Line: The one-coach penn central is bound Last Line: The ceiling was frescoed %in olive and silver Subject(s): Books; Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Railroads ON READING - THOUGH NOT FAR - IN A CRITIC MUCH TOUTED TODAY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These never change, while time's pollution thickens: Last Line: Cackle of critics, and the shit of chickens Variant Title(s): Dear Reader, From Juvenal, I, 79 Subject(s): Books; Reading ON READING - THOUGH NOT FAR - IN A CRITIC MUCH TOUTED TODAY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These never change, while time's pollution thickens: Last Line: Cackle of critics, and the shit of chickens Variant Title(s): Dear Reader, From Juvenal, I, 7 Subject(s): Books ON REREADING TELEMAQUE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I place thee back upon the shelf Last Line: Until another man was sent her! Subject(s): Books; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Reading; Male-female Relations ON SEEING ON THE SAME BOOKSHELF JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS ..., by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See british bards and british cut-throats made Last Line: Dryden on wings or turpin on a hack! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading ON THE BOOKS OF SOLOMON OPENED BY MASTER TRAPP, by JOHN TRAPP Poem Source First Line: I stood in solomon's porch before Last Line: This dore of trapp, or this trap-dore, %trapp, trapp! - but god I must adore Subject(s): Books ON THE BURNING OF BOOKS, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: When the new masters announced that books full of harmful knowledge Last Line: Recored the truth in my books? And now %you class me with liars Subject(s): Books; Germany; Nazis ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (1), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So then - the vandals of our isle Last Line: The burning of his own. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wit and genius meet their doom Last Line: The honey on his tongue. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hear the words of scripture, or to read Last Line: To seek the truth, receive it, and retain. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to read, my worthy friend ponthieu Last Line: The book of books is ev'ry man's own heart. Subject(s): Books; Language; Religious Education; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON THE FLYLEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: At cato's head in russell street Last Line: And watch her at her binding. Subject(s): Books; Plays & Playwrights ; Reading; Dramatists ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child! Do not throw this book about Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Books; Reading ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child! Do not throw this book about Last Line: For men that lose their fairylands Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Books ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lad whose life is pure and clean Last Line: And love its cardiac motive power. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Reading ON THE LIBRARIE AT CAMBRIDGE, by J. M. Poem Source First Line: In that great maze of books I sighed, and said Last Line: Spreading a relic wealth, richer than golden mines Subject(s): Books ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This figure, that thou here seest put Last Line: Not at his picture, but his book. Variant Title(s): To The Reader Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Droeshout, Martin; Engraving & Engravers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading; Dramatists ONE VOLUME MORE (WRITTEN FOR THE BANNATYNE CLUB), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assist me, ye friends of old books and old wine Last Line: Pay down your subscriptions for four volumes more Subject(s): Books ONE WHO WORKS AND BUYS HIMSELF BOOKS, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One who works Last Line: Then can't get up Subject(s): Books ONLY ONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A big book, a very big book Last Line: Knows the whole story Subject(s): Bible; Books; Knowledge; Scholarship And Scholars OR, TO HOCUS THE ANIMALS OF THE PURSUERS BY CHANGING THEIR DREAM..., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and windy cloud with delicate Last Line: Joseph cornell knew it well Subject(s): Books; Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Poetry & Poets; Reading ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Reading; Historians ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife Last Line: Armpits, the bed full of bugs Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love ORTHODOXIES 25, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He brooded, a crooked spell. A diagonal, so-so paradise Last Line: His daydreams. But they say their suit him Subject(s): Bible; Books; Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian OTHER TIGER, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Last Line: Another tiger, the beast not found in verse Subject(s): Animals; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Mythical Animals; Poetry And Poets; Tigers OUR BOOK-SHELVES, by THOMAS GORDON HAKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What solace would those books afford Subject(s): Books OUR LORD'S ONE WRITING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange that he, fount of a million books Last Line: Of those few transient words upon the ground! Subject(s): Books; Reading OUR PRESIDENT READS A BOOK -- NOT LOUIS L'AMOUR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Before all the world Last Line: We have sought his love for a thousand days Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Presidents, United States; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911); White House (washington, D.c.) OUT OF AN OLD BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I opened, read: lo, like a sun Last Line: Beauty is dateless, life is one. Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading OVER THE THRESHOLDS OF MY LIBRARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From mouldering abbey's dark scriptorium brought Last Line: Entering where aldus might have fixed his throne, %or harry stephens covetted his own Subject(s): Books OWED' TO MY POCKET-BOOK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "how fair thou art, o little book" Last Line: Will carry all my money Subject(s): Books;money;russia; Reading;soviet Union;russians OXFORD, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Homeless and never sadder, Last Line: The book is out of print Subject(s): Oxford, England; Books & Reading PAGE, by DOUGLAS MESSERLI Poem Source First Line: The page, unique petal Last Line: Taken to get %where so worn Subject(s): Books PAGE ON THE LILY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source Last Line: I am in all mirrors Subject(s): Books; Language; Poetry And Poets PAGE ONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the anger at grammar had subsided Last Line: The wondrous opening sentence on page one Subject(s): Books; Future; Language; Learning PAUL ELUARD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been reading about paul eluard tonight Last Line: He lived on love, cold water, and poetry. Subject(s): Books; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Suffering; Misery PAVILION, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the study Last Line: A kind of smile on my long dark lips Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Weariness PEOPLE LOOKING AT A PHOTO ALBUM, by BRADLEY PAUL Poem Source First Line: We were animated around the photograph Last Line: And the secent of the redbuds %was fresh along the sill Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Picture Books PHARISEES ARE SCOLDED FOR READING SCRIPTURE LITERALLY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It fell into my tea, its black thumbs thrashing Last Line: Like a little noose Subject(s): Books; Literature PHILOPARTHENS LOUING FOLLY, SELS., by JOHN HARRINGTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Books PHILOSOPHER'S GAME, SELS., by R. LEVER Subject(s): Books PHYLLIS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: She might have stepped out of a little book Last Line: And there was phyllis playing by the brook! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Reading PHYSIOGNOMY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: No wonder I did not find you at the barber shop Last Line: The scripture of her body Subject(s): Bible; Books; Printing And Printers PICTURE BOOKS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold the finest picture books Last Line: "no mortal hand has fashioned thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Picture Books PICTURE BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is freshly tinted Last Line: They delight the children's eyes. Subject(s): Books; Children; Reading; Childhood PICTURES ON EXHIBITION, by BURTON RAFFEL Poem Source First Line: These high-browed, flat-nosed anthropoidal faces Last Line: And time, if not against their will, not with it, either Subject(s): Picture Books PLEASURES OF BOOKS, by HENRY DE RANTZU Poem Source First Line: Golden volumes! Richest treasures! Last Line: Dear volumes! You have not deceived! Subject(s): Books POEM FOR IGNATOW, by ROBERT FUNGE Poem Source First Line: It was an ordinary evening Last Line: Over my head. I was the star of the show Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets POEM OF THE GIFTS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no one impute to self-pity or censure Last Line: Seems at one with sleep and at one with oblivion Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEMS OF THE ORIENT', by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We read your little book of orient lays Last Line: And take the sandy solitude alone Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings POETRY, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: You are the companion I talk with Last Line: In the middle of a street of stares Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets POETRY IS VERDANT, by JAAN KAPLINSKI Poem Source Last Line: All our unthought thoughts and unborn poems hide Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets POETRY MACHINES, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw your new book today. Just after I saw your new book. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading POETRY SWIMSUIT ISSUE, by CHARLES GREENLEY Poem Source First Line: Sounds like an unsexy idea at first Last Line: For the same reason most everything else does Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Literature; Poetry And Poets POONA OBSERVER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are able to present our readers with an inaccurate misrepresentation Last Line: Conkimplation of the surrounding scenery Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Lear, Edward (1812-1888) POST ULIXEM SCRIPTUM, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man dear, did you never hear of buxom molly bloom at all Subject(s): Books; Reading POST ULIXEM SCRIPTUM, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man dear, did you never hear of buxom molly bloom at all Last Line: But if I cling like a child ot the clouds that are your petticoats, %o molly, handsome molly, sure y Subject(s): Books PRAISE OF ALL WOMEN, SELS., by EDWARD GOSYNHYLL Subject(s): Books PRAISE OF ANTIQUARIES, by DAVID MALLET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sagely resolved to swell each bulky piece Last Line: There nicely trifling, accurately dull, %how one may toil, and toil - to be a fool Alternate Author Name(s): Malloch, David Subject(s): Books PRECIOUS WORDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He ate and drank the precious words Last Line: A loosened spirit brings! Subject(s): Books; Freedom; Reading; Liberty PRIE-DIEU, by DONALD DAVIDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of what sins have you made confession here Subject(s): Books & Reading; Beauty PRISON THOUGHTS, by W. DODD Poem Source First Line: Books, dear books, %have been, and are my comforts morn and night Last Line: And source of consolation Subject(s): Books; Prisons And Prisoners PROCESS OF ELIMINATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For 71 days I've tried to write about eichmann Last Line: He'd only apologize for the shit, %for the need and nothing else Subject(s): Books; Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962) PROEM: BALLADE OF THE BOOKWORM, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the past I peer, and see Last Line: The books I loved—to love them still. Subject(s): Books; Reading PROLOGUE OF ROBERT COPLANDE, by ROBERT COPLAND Poem Source First Line: The godly vse of prudent wytted men Last Line: Dayly descrying of vertues the fortheraunce Subject(s): Books PROLOGUE TO 'A BOOKMAN'S BUDGET', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, my book. To other eyes Last Line: That should be counted to your credit. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading PROLOGUE TO 'VIGNETTES IN RHYME', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book, on this thy first emprize Last Line: Of art, or grace, or song, -- that is not hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading PROOFREADING ASSYRIAN, by MOLLY MCQUADE Poem Source First Line: I don't know that the language we use Last Line: With famished lost-language lust Subject(s): Books; Language PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF READING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read not milton, for he is dry, nor shakespeare Last Line: And if thou canst not realize the ideal, thou shalt at least idealize the real. Subject(s): Books; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor; Reading PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three images flash on the screen Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Books; Youth; Reading QUARTOS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad quartos were my first love Subject(s): Books; Reading RACK OF PAPERBACKS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gateway, grove, %and dover say Last Line: Their spines are not %austerely stiff Subject(s): Paperback Books READ A BOOK A WEAK, by HELEN S. MORSE Poem Text First Line: If I were king of zululand, a grand and noble sheik Last Line: But I take some minutes every day and read a book a week. Subject(s): Books; Reading READER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He reads the new book, sees what's true Last Line: Why is the old writer happy to be dumb? Subject(s): Books; Writing And Writers READING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When he's reading Last Line: Till they lie %bleeding Subject(s): Books READING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is spring when the storks return Subject(s): Books; Reading READING, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Left tom's creative writing Last Line: Felt cheated & stabbed me Subject(s): Books READING ABOUT ROCKS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book, solid and heavy as rock Last Line: Surfaces of both solids-your hand and the rock Subject(s): Books; Earth; Geology; Stones READING ALOUD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we read tennyson aloud Last Line: A living lyric there! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading READING ALOUD TO MY FATHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the book haphazard Last Line: And let them pull it free Subject(s): Books & Reading; Fathers & Daughters; Mortality READING DICKENS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not long after the war, my father Last Line: Saving the ending for tomorrow Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets READING FOR WHO YOU ARE, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: Thank you. I'd like to begin tonight by reading this statement Last Line: Exactly 15 minutes have elapsed since the time I was given to read this. %thank you Subject(s): Books; Diaries; Letters; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers READING IN WAR TIME, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boswell by my bed Subject(s): Books; Boswell, James (1740-1795); War; Reading READING IN WAR TIME, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boswell by my bed Subject(s): Books; Boswell, James (1740-1795); War READING JOHN MCPHEE FOR BOOK CLUB, by JULIE LARIOS Poem Source First Line: I chose this book so I need Last Line: Say someone. Let's read %that one next, everyone agrees Subject(s): Books; Clubs (associations) READING LATE IN THE COTTAGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There aren't that many pages left Last Line: Insect trapped in the lightbulb. Subject(s): Books; Houses; Reading READING LESSON, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen years old, learning the alphabet Last Line: For breakfast, or if wrens he'd make them king Subject(s): Books READING LIGHTS, by JO ANNE TRINKLE Poem Source First Line: Abraham lincoln %read by candlelight Last Line: Paler white pages %of hope Subject(s): Books READING LU CHI, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight touching all eight corners Subject(s): Books; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men READING MAYAKOVSKY, by J. WESLEY CLARK Poem Source First Line: I can't make jelly from this thick pulp Last Line: I'll be slanting rain Subject(s): Books; Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930) READING ROOM, by KRISTIN FOGDALL Poem Source First Line: Feet like running Last Line: And says the words without a sound Subject(s): Books; Rooms READING ROOM, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back before we all became 'multicultural' Last Line: Order, my torn rag mottled, spotted, %dark with that week's dust Subject(s): Books READING SAPPHO, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt me hear if ever hearing from afar Last Line: Cheeks cruel gift or say what you love best Subject(s): Books; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) READING THE GREEKS UNDER A BLANKET OF BLUE, by BILL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Quarter moon trading light with a snowfall Last Line: Swings off the cumbersome cover of night Subject(s): Books; Moon; Mythology - Classical; Night READING THE RUSSIANS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course they are gloomy; / they drink a lot of vodka Last Line: Chernobyl, and gogol's nose. Subject(s): Books; Russia; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Soviet Union; Russians READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (1911-2004)); Religion; Women's Rights; Reading; Male-female Relations; Theology; Feminism READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Last Line: The color blue was full of darkness, dreaming %in the wind and trees. I was reading you Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (b. 1911); Religion; Women's Rights RECOLLECTION OF GABRIELA MISTRAL, by CARMEN BRANNON BEERS Poem Source First Line: Your retreat hardly prompted Last Line: Of all of your verses Subject(s): Books; Home; Poetry And Poets REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S 'ESTIMATE OF THE MANNERS OF THE TIMES', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book appears to my perusing sight Last Line: All-bearing meekness, and all-conq'ring love. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; England; Writing & Writers; Reading; English REREADING FOUR QUARTETS, by MARGARET HOLLEY Poem Source First Line: When the year 1962 was inscribed in this book Last Line: Future, poetry, sunlight, music, mystery Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings RESPONSIBILITIES: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain Last Line: Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Books; Reading REVIEWING THE TAPE; I.M. PIERO HELICZER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calling 1959 calling 1959 what does he know Last Line: Cave equals room equals window Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading REVOLUTIONARY STORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good mother, what quaint legend are you reading Last Line: "who ever have been loved." Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Books; Roses; American Revolution; Love – Loss Of; Memory RIVER AND A YOUNG WOMAN 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: After all, why sadness? Why fear? We don't know the depths of finnish Last Line: The man who stands somewhere in the open, alone, on the high plains? Subject(s): Books; Old Age; Poetry And Poets ROBERT COPLANDE, BOKE PRINTER TO NEW FANGLERS, by ROBERT COPLAND Poem Source First Line: Newes, newes, newes, have ye ony newes? Last Line: Thus be two loves, scrypture bereth wytnesse Subject(s): Books ROMANCE IN THE OLD FOLKS' HOME, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First he offered to read to her Last Line: And she asked him please to begin Subject(s): Books; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Poetry And Poets; Romance ROWFANT BOOKS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books ROWFANT LIBRARY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of the shepherd's saw Subject(s): Books RUINED LIBRARY, by WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK Poem Source First Line: Imperious caesar dead and turn'd to clay Subject(s): Books SALESMAN AND A LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mom smelled of books, even dad admitted Last Line: Their bristly mustaches; too tired to raise, %on brontosaurus necks, their plastic hammer-heads Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Librarians And Libraries; Salespersons SAPPHO BURNS HER BOOKS AND CULTIVATES THE CULINARY ARTS, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Companions of my favorite hours Last Line: Severest -- disappointed love. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Books; Cooking & Cooks; Women - Writers; Reading SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 8. IN THE STUDY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Last Line: No household skeleton at all. Subject(s): Books; Reading SCHEHERAZADE, by CALVIN WILLLIAM TRUESDALE Poem Source First Line: The translations at least survived, and the published travel essays, gor Last Line: He had ever really come into what he was meant to be Subject(s): Books; Essays; Paper; Publishing; Writing And Writers SCHOOL AND NATURE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Drawn on the blackboard Last Line: The dark drops of its blood Subject(s): Books; Classmates; Nature; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCOLE HOUSE OF WOMEN, SELS., by EDWARD GOSYNHYLL Subject(s): Books SEASCAPE WITH BOOKENDS, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: For some strange reason, reading the yellow novel, one thinks of Last Line: Here in the book it cannot stay forever and there on the %sea the text is lost Subject(s): Books SECOND-HAND, by DAVID RICKS Poem Source First Line: And here's mein kampf in english, leather Last Line: From sanskrit svasti, 'well-being, fortune, luck'.' Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Memory SECREES OF OLD PHILISOFFRES, SELS., by JOHN LYDGATE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books SENTENCE, by SAUL YURKIEVICH Poem Source First Line: Doesn't read what he should Last Line: Lives but shouldn't %shouldn't live Subject(s): Books; Human Rights; Language; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a bookcase, which is what Last Line: Shake, mulleary and go-ethe. Subject(s): Books; Reading SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by our lady, here is master speech! Last Line: "and pluck a heedless world anew from hell!" Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dramatists; God; James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists SHAWL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Eight hours by bus, and night Subject(s): Books & Reading SHELF DECEPTION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On virtue all my soul is bent Last Line: And make myself an honest woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Books; Soul; Reading SHIELD, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What belongs to one %cannot belong to another Last Line: The alligator too %are beginning to move Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Shields SHIP OF FOOLS OF THE WORLD, SELS., by SEBASTIAN BRANT Poem Source First Line: Each is not lettred that nowe is made a lorde Last Line: Lest by much speech my latin should be spent Alternate Author Name(s): Brandt, Sebastian+(1) Subject(s): Books SI, SI, E.E., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Warm legend, blue shadow Last Line: (& yes, they wore great big hats, size extra large Subject(s): Books; Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Words; Vocabulary SICK BED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half dead with fever here in bed I sprawl Last Line: My face in pillows, praying for merciful sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Books; Sickness; Reading; Illness SIERRAS HERMITAGE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books & Reading; Aging SIGNS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when a customer in a shadowy restaurant Last Line: The word end printed %in ornate capitals? Subject(s): Books; Finality SILENT READING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Saint augustine was baffled when he found Last Line: Word upon the page Subject(s): Books; Wisdom SITTING IN THE BOOK ROOM AT THE GARDEN OF WHAT REMAINS, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: The peaceful lake is vast, the white clouds are light Last Line: Bird songs accompany me as I read alone Subject(s): Books; Serenity SMELL OF FRENCH BOOKS, by RICHARD FAMMEREE Poem Source First Line: The smell of french books is particuliere. It is Last Line: It is the lick, lick, lick of a chocolate clock, and I am asleep %before the chiming Subject(s): Books; France; Sleep SOBER FEAST, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Reading a moveable feast Last Line: Cup of hot british tea Subject(s): Books; Food And Eating SOLACE DERIVED FROM BOOKS, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence care, and let me steep my drooping spirit Last Line: The heart, and burn through shakspeare's matchless page. Subject(s): Books; Reading SOLILOQUY OF THE BLANK PAGE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, in the distance there is a river, a bridge Last Line: Selfhood giving a poetry reading Subject(s): Books; Self SOME VERSES, WRITTEN IN SEPTEMBER 1676 (PRESENTING A BOOK), by JOHN OLDHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, humble gifty, go to that matchless saint Last Line: Easy, as in soft air, there writ they are, %yet firm, as if in brass they graven were Subject(s): Books SOMETHING IN BOOKS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you have something in books to-day? Last Line: Daytime and nighttime, till living shall end Subject(s): Books SONG - THE BOOKSELLERS' BANQUET (1840), by WILLIAM MAGINN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grave vendors of volumes, best friends of the nine Last Line: As a knight of the quill, here to offer for nil, %my right in this song as a present to tegg Subject(s): Books SONG BOOK, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To everybody Last Line: Blue wings. (no faces.) don't tell me a thing. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONG: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rose and cypress and tinsel gay Last Line: And whisper with sadness and loving sighs. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading ends in melancholy Last Line: Farewell all, if friendship ceases. Subject(s): Books; Disease; Friendship; Melancholy; Reading; Dejection SONNET (ON AN OLD BOOK WITH UNCUT LEAVES), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire Last Line: Hugs its incongruous virginity! Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET ON AN OLD BOOK (PICKED UP IN A SECOND-HAND BOOK SHOP), by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friend, to wisdom and to beauty born Last Line: Some other, to the books I love, give grace! Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET TO H.S., by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I thy book, friend, open hastily Last Line: When spring returns, fresh leaves it dons apace. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET TO ZOE KING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: 02/29/24 Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET: 11. ON THE DETRACTION FOLLOWED MY WRITING TREATISES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A book was writ of late called tetrachordon Last Line: When thou taught'st cambridge, and king edward greek. Variant Title(s): The Detraction Which Followed Upon Writing Certain Treatises;sonnet 11;on The Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing Certain Treatises Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET: 3: WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S MONASTICON, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deem not devoid of elegance the sage Last Line: Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET: 6, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So shall this book wax like unto a well Last Line: Shall melt before the sunshine in thy book. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET: SIBYLLINE BOOKS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading SOULS OF BOOKS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit here and muse! - it is an antique room Last Line: Read; and the lost smile down on thee from heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Books SPECIOUS AND SUPERFICIAL WRITERS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rare the case, tho' common the pretence Last Line: Paid without scruple,—he enjoys the trash. Subject(s): Books; Reason; Writing & Writers; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SPELL AGAINST RUIN, by FRANK X. GASPAR Poem Source First Line: I am reading dante, late at night, trying Last Line: I am willing to hold the book any way you wish Subject(s): Books; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALFRED MOIR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why was I not devoured by self-contempt Last Line: As I read it over and over? Subject(s): Books; Reading SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IMANUEL EHRENHARDT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I began with sir william hamilton's lectures Last Line: Who showed me a letter of john muir. Subject(s): Books; Reading SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SETH COMPTON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I died the circulating library Last Line: Who knows not what is false. Subject(s): Books; Reading STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 3. THE RIGHT TO KILL (MOSCOW, 1913), by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: X and asterisk: shorthand all night flowing Last Line: Of counter-revolutionary nature? And the blue hand shakes Subject(s): Books; Mandelstam, Osip (1892-1941); Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 4. IS RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD POSSIBLE?, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Against the table the cadaver thrashes: its blue arms quiver Last Line: Its own suttee. The corpse has the final word Subject(s): Books; Corpses; Lazarus; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 5. RITUAL MURDER AMONG THE JEWS, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not wait until we force you: we will have the final say Last Line: The verdict is final, the case is closed Subject(s): Books; Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 6. PRACTICAL VERSIFICATION (MOSCOW, 1908), by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Should the couplets be open or should they be closed? Last Line: Should the couplets be open or should they be closed? Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading STANZAS COMPOSED IN REV. J. MITFORD'S LIBRARY, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O! Methinks could dwell content Last Line: Whose taste and talent gave it birth, %and well can estimate its worth Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Books STILL BURNING, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me trying to understand say whence Subject(s): Books; Thought; Reading; Thinking STINGY FRIEND, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You cry, whene'er you meet me still Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY, by JAMES J. GALVIN Poem Source First Line: To keep from ending Last Line: Only the stories about them do Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry And Poets STRAWBERRIES IN MEXICO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 14th street and first avenue Last Line: It's just a very blue sky I'm looking at Subject(s): Books; Madison Avenue, New York; Retail Trade; Reading; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers STUDY OF READING HABITS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When getting my nose in a book Last Line: Who's yellow and keeps the store, %seem far too familiar. Get stewed: %books are load of crap Subject(s): Books; Hate SUGGESTED BY THE COVER OF A VOLUME OF KEATS'S POEMS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild little bird, who chose thee for a sign Last Line: To bear this untamed, passionate burst of song. Subject(s): Books; Reading SULTAN OF MY BOOKS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, my wither Subject(s): Books SUNDAY SCHOOL, by ARIELLE GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: No, hebrew school kids, after-school kids, sunday school kids, you don't Last Line: No ashes, no roses, just a pine box and stones, the worms to come and %eat through to your souls Subject(s): Books; Children; Jewish Families; Schools SUPERNATURAL LOVE, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father at the dictionary-stand Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude Subject(s): Books; Fathers; Reading SUPERNATURAL LOVE, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father at the dictionary-stand Last Line: The flowers I called christ's when I was four Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude Subject(s): Books; Fathers SUSPIRIA NOCTIS, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading, and reading - little is the gain Last Line: Moans like a dying hound. Subject(s): Books; Reading SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE: TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reade if you will: and if you will not chuse Last Line: I rest your honest, carelesse friend Subject(s): Books; Reading TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR AN IMAGINARY BOOK, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spree %monster gardens %up close, out back, down under Last Line: Burning down the ocean %multiple choice Subject(s): Books; Writing And Writers TAKE BACK THE VIRGIN PAGE; WRITTEN ON RETURNING A BLANK BOOK, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take back the virgin page Last Line: Guiding my way. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Books; Reading TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PRELUDE. THE WAYSIDE INN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One autumn night, in sudbury town Last Line: Yielded; and thus the story ran. Subject(s): Books; Music & Musicians; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Sudbury, Massachusetts; Reading TANKA, by TACHIBANA AKEMI Poem Source First Line: Happiness is when %you're reading alone Last Line: Exactly like yourself Subject(s): Books; Happiness TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES 3, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: Joan durbeyfield's fortune-telling book Last Line: Her mother thought, she'd have been a better cook Subject(s): Books THE A. OF WA - - (AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, john, I will not own the book Last Line: The worn-out wriggler Subject(s): Books; Reading THE ARGUMENT OF HIS BOOK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of brooks, of blossoms, of birds, and bowers Last Line: Of heaven, and hope to have it after all. Variant Title(s): His Theme;lyric Argument;preface To Hesperides;the Argument Of Hesperides;hesperides Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How hard, when those who do not wish / to lend, thus lose, their books Last Line: "they have not left me ""sterne." Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Books; Reading THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How hard, when those who do not wish / to lend, thus lose, their books Last Line: "they have not left me ""sterne." Subject(s): Books; Reading THE ATTIC WINDOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the windows in our house Last Line: Where all the summer daytimes go! Subject(s): Children; Picture Books; Childhood THE BIBLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this book-this holy book, on every line" Last Line: "and earnest sighs, to read, believe and live" Subject(s): Bible;books;jews;religion; Reading;judaism;theology THE BIBLE, by PHOEBE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Blessed bible! How I love it! Last Line: Sweeter still thy truths shall be! Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLIOMANIAC'S PRAYER, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way Last Line: Uncut, unique, unknown to lowndes. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOK, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Red-gold and rough morocco are its covers Last Line: With truth at rhythmic heel of song, its lord. Subject(s): Books; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reading THE BOOK, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books & Reading THE BOOK, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, I have made a book of my mistakes Last Line: In all the world, not one -- save only I. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Schools; Reading; Students THE BOOK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the book of shadows Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The THE BOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I moved from the sun-warmed garden-seat Last Line: Had made me a monk for evermore! Subject(s): Bells; Books; Love; Past; Voices; Wind; Reading THE BOOK, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal god! Maker of all Last Line: Who in them lov'd and sought thy face! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Books; Doubt; Reading; Skepticism THE BOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallery of sacred pictures manifold Last Line: The one ineffable face, love, wonder, and adore. Subject(s): Books; God; Reading THE BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Reading; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound and bordered in leaf-green Last Line: The book of joyous children. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Children; Laughter; Reading; Childhood THE BOOK OF LIFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything very hardy Last Line: Jews like ourselves have just begun to plant Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading THE BOOK OF STONES AND LILIES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a book Last Line: Across the dew and the gold of a young day. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology THE BOOK'S CREED, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. Poem Text First Line: Reader, listen ere we go Last Line: You will live this simple creed. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOK-STALL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands in a winding street Last Line: In the book-stall old and gray. Variant Title(s): The Bookstall Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKPLATE'S PETITION, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While cynic charles still trimm'd the vane Last Line: Cheltenham, sept. 31, 1792. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKS I OUGHT TO READ, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On dusty shelves in serried ranks they stand Last Line: The books I ought to read! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKSHOP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierrot has grown old Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKWORMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through and through the inspired leaves Last Line: And spare his golden bindings. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BURDEN OF MODERNITY': THE BOOK, THE GOD, THE CHILD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: United airlines check-in: and the line is arranged Subject(s): Books; Children; God; Reading; Childhood THE CEREMONY OF THE PRINTER'S APPRENTICE; A GERMAN MORALITY PLAY, by WILLAM BLADES Poem Text First Line: My worthy masters all, whom we are glad to see Last Line: So long as worthy books find readers in our land. Subject(s): Apprentices; Books; Farce; Reading THE CHILD ALONE: 4. PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer fading, winter comes Last Line: Reading picture story-books? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Winter; Reading THE CHILD ALONE: 7. THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening when the lamp is lit Last Line: At my dear land of story-books. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Play; Reading; Childhood THE CHILD READS THE ALMANAC, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near her egg-basket, the child is reading the almanac Last Line: They're weighing coffee, salt, and consciences. Subject(s): Almanacs; Books; Constellations; Markets; Zodiac; Reading; Supermarkets THE COLLECTOR TO HIS LIBRARY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown books of mine, who never yet Last Line: This, more than other good, I pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): The Final Word Subject(s): Books; Collectors & Collecting; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians THE CURATOR EXPLAINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is my kingdom, this my small domain Last Line: That leave my heart aglow with joy and praise Subject(s): Books; History; Museums; Reading; Historians; Art Gallerys THE DEAD ONES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have grown up in the belief that all the Last Line: Five cents a yard. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Reading THE DEMON OF THE STUDY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brownie sits in the scotchman's room Last Line: That reading demon, that fat old man! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE ELDER BROTHER: THE PLEASURES OF A LIBRARY, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me leave / to enjoy myself. That place, that does contain Last Line: To incre se in knowledge. Lights there, for my study! Variant Title(s): The Library A Glorious Court Subject(s): Books; Reading THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It’s a spring morning; sun pours in the window Last Line: Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love Subject(s): Books & Reading; Women's Rights; Innocence; Love - Erotic; Feminism THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best words get said frequently—they are like fertile pips Last Line: For whom r would have released a flock of red canaries Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading THE FAVORITE, by DOROTHA M. SHOEMAKER Poem Text First Line: An old book soiled and worn from handling Last Line: An immortality greater than a memory? Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Reading THE FIRST EDITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighed the book, 'I am bound to be read Last Line: "my friends are the first that will cut me." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Books; Reading THE GOLD BOOK, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It told the story of a runaway rose Subject(s): Books; Roses; Reading THE HA' BIBLE, by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I could worship thee! Last Line: A sunbeam sent from god,—an everlasting bow! Subject(s): Bible; Books; God; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: FEBRUARY3RD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your own ideas may be too fanciful to be practical Last Line: Useful, graceful, sturdy, and with no caper no plan Subject(s): Ideas; Books; Reading THE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS, by MOSTYN T. PIGOTT Poem Text First Line: First there's the bible Last Line: And -- some verses of mine. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Reading; Theology THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months after the muse Subject(s): Books; Pictures; Reading THE INCUNABULUM'S TALE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Master: tacitus in red morocco Last Line: Sine anno, sine loco. Subject(s): Books; England; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Reading; English THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INN ALBUM: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That oblong book's the album; hand it over Last Line: Occupied by the elm at window there. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE JUDGMENT-BOOK, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book was opened! Men in wonder stood! Last Line: Then passed into the dark — his page was white! Subject(s): Books; Judgments; Soul; Reading THE KING OF SPAIN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LAST MAN: RECOLLECTION OF EARLY LIFE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: My life unfolds. Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading THE LAST PROOF; AN EPILOGUE TO ANY PROOF, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finis at last - the end, the end, the end!' Last Line: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LAST READER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes sit beneath a tree Last Line: When the last reader reads no more! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LIBRARY, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sad soul, by care and grief oppressed Last Line: And tell them, such are all the toys they love.' Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians THE LIBRARY, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Petals of flowers filling my vases Last Line: Always to be mine. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LIBRARY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, e'en the sturdy democrat may find Last Line: T is wise to learn; 't is godlike to create! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LIBRARY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My days among the dead are past Last Line: That will not perish in the dust. Variant Title(s): Among His Books;the Scholar In His Library;his Books;the Scholar;stanzas Written In His Library Subject(s): Books; Heaven; Reading; Paradise THE LIBRARY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My house is very large and tall Last Line: They are the friends that never die. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Libraries & Librarians; November; Reading THE LIST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man told me he had calculated Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LITTLE FRIEND; WRITTEN IN THE BOOK WHICH SHE MADE & SENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book thou givest, dear as such Last Line: Ye meet th' advancing years! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LITTLE WORDS WITHIN MY BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: At home or dinner-time or play Subject(s): Books; Language THE LOON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not quite four a.M., when the rapture of being alive Subject(s): Insomnia; Books; Loons; Sleeplessness; Reading THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MIND OF THE FRONTISPIECE TO A BOOK, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From death and dark oblivion (near the same) Last Line: The light of truth, and life of memory. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Engraving & Engravers; Reading THE MISSING PAGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a poem, the jittery sort Last Line: Yearning and delight Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading THE MODERN BOOK, by M. R. Poem Text First Line: Extremely small or of giant size Last Line: And five cents' worth of literature. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE NEW BOOK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See my dainty little girl Last Line: Write my name, and make it mine! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE NEW RIVER HEAD; A FRAGMENT, by E. DOWER Poem Text First Line: Tired with books and rolling on the bed Last Line: I leaned upon my staff and fell asleep. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Reading; Sleeplessness THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two days I've been crying Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE OLDER ARTIST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Kid's written a 200-page lament Last Line: And too many shoes. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading THE PARADE OF BOOKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the parade of books Last Line: The loverly, quiet, reserved parade of books. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE PLUTE'S LIBRARY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, stately books, in handsome cases, all Last Line: Come and read them. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 201, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading won't save us from death Last Line: And you'll forget the bitterness Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Reading THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 31, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain man lives under thatch Last Line: A shelf full of nothing but books Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Mountains; Reading; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POET'S HOUR, by FRANCIS CARO Poem Text First Line: The violet-laden flower girl Last Line: That I thought were dead. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets - French; Reading THE POETASTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a poet, as poetry goes now-a-days Last Line: The man, after all, is but just where he was. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading THE POETS OF OLD ISRAEL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old israel's readers of the stars Last Line: Abides, quenchless forevermore. Subject(s): Books; God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Judaism THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet west wind, the prairie school Last Line: A legacy to those who come from those who come no more. Subject(s): Books; Prairies; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Plains; Students THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists THE RARE BOOK, by EDNA SCRUGGS WILLIAMSON Poem Text First Line: Twas just a little while ago - or so, to me, it seems Last Line: Long upon the cherished pages marked by baby fingers. Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Reading; Childhood THE READER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I sat reading a book Subject(s): Books; Reading THE READER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She is going back, these days, to the great stories Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Reading THE READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE READING BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: He is carved in alabaster, he is called the reading boy Last Line: Discard that trojan magazine, and give a real good stretch. Subject(s): Books; Sculpture & Sculptors; Reading THE SCHOLAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When I was ignorant and small Last Line: I keep my eyes tight on my book. Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Education; January; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading THE SCHOLAR'S EDEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the eden I'd like to build Last Line: In the eden I'm wanting to make? Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Reading THE SEAMY SIDE OF MOTLEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when we sat together Last Line: Funny every day. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Editors; Humor; Writing & Writers; Reading THE SERIAL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I burst upon the reader's eye Last Line: But this goes on forever. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THE SHAM LIBRARY; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in madrid, there dwelt a worthy man Last Line: The costly volumes which they never read! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DEDICATORY SONNET, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goe, little booke: thy self presente Last Line: Immerito. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Books; Reading THE SMALLISH SON, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small voice is fretting my house in the night Last Line: And if you do not find them, turn away Subject(s): Books; Sons; Reading THE SOLILOQUY OF THE BLANK PAGE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, in the distance there is a river, a bridge Last Line: An airborne cloud of selfhood giving a poetry reading Subject(s): Books; Self; Reading THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took his hand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness THE SUMMER RAIN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read Last Line: Who in a beaded coat does gaily go. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading THE SUNDAY BOOK, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read to him, connie, read as you sit Last Line: Across the waves of a wintry sea. Subject(s): Books; Sabbath; Reading; Sunday THE TRUE BIBLIOPHILE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a bibliophile? Mere lover Last Line: The terror of it. Subject(s): Books; Collectors & Collecting; Reading THE UNFINISHED BOOK, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take it, reader, idly passing Last Line: In the heaven of heavens alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Books; Reading THE USE OF BOOKS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's there to praise Last Line: Of those lost finds no longer use to me Subject(s): Books; Praise; Reading THE VISIBLE WORLD, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I dig my hands into the absolute. The surface Subject(s): Human Body; Transience; Reading And Books; Impermanence THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, I have a book at last Last Line: And you have not learned to read it. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Books; France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips THE WORLD'S WAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He wrote his soul into a book Last Line: "behold, the world brought out his book!" Subject(s): Books;rhyme;writing & Writers; Reading THERE WAS AN OLD MAN WITH A BOOK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Enquire if there ain't such a book! Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont." Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips THOSE DICKINS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose you think it queer, an' 't ain't no common thing, I know Last Line: She'll know her husband sent 'em, an' wants -- to be -- forgiven. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Marriage; Reading; Clemency; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THOU READER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I Last Line: Therefore for thee the following chants. Subject(s): Books; Reading THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (1), by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reade one, and say, 'tis good; I beare the name Last Line: So that I know a foole be not my iudge. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading THREE SEVERAL BIRDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The romancer's a nightingale Last Line: And only dreams for him!) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Reading THUS, SPEAK THE CHROMOGRAPH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saying: one night in a cloud chamber Last Line: Run toward the sea) Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Nature; Reading TIME'S PICTURE BOOK, by EDNA VALENTINE TRAPNELL Poem Text First Line: Out on the edge of the worlds Last Line: In his picture-book of the earth. Subject(s): Picture Books; Time TITLES OF BOOKS RECENTLY PURCHASED BY THE WOMAN HE HAD FINALLY LEFT, by EDGAR SILEX Poem Source First Line: The creative connection %art psychotherapy and psychosis Last Line: To live until we say goodbye Subject(s): Books TO A DAFFODIL, OR PERHAPS A LITTLE GOSSIP ABOUT FLAUBERT, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by associated stuffed shirts & Subject(s): Books & Reading TO A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR'S, A PERSON OF HONOURS, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bold is the man that dares engage Last Line: I wish the throng of great and good %made it less eas'ly understood Subject(s): Books TO A MISSAL OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Missal of the gothic age Last Line: Something mute -- but eloquent! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Books; Reading TO A NEW BOOK, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I wonder if I dare to place you here Last Line: Can prove your worth and right to be there, too. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Reading TO A PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT, by IDA O'NEIL Poem Text First Line: Behind the high white wall Last Line: Upon my knees. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO ALMON KEEFER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This first book that I ever knew Last Line: And I will listen as you read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Youth; Reading TO AN ANTHROPOLOGIST, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, even the devil should have his due Subject(s): Books; Reading TO AN AUTHOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Last night at last I found a chance Last Line: The clock struck five. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO AN OLD, OLD BOOK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To what strange chance, thou sere and yellow books Last Line: Thy wisdom taught cannot for aye grow old. Subject(s): Books; Old Age; Wisdom; Reading TO ANOTHER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us sit now in the broad window Last Line: That li po saw in the drowned rushes Subject(s): Books; China; Legends; Li Po (701-762); Relationships TO BOCCACCIO IN HEAVEN; A PARODY, by ALEXANDER BOSWELL Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To boccaccio in heaven, as he chatted one day Last Line: And marlborough, who france could, like wellington, drub, %are emblazoned at once in the roxburghe c Subject(s): Books TO E.G. DEDICATING A BOOK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken tale of endless things Last Line: And does not mean to end. Subject(s): Books; God; Gosse, Sir Edmund (1849-1928); Story-telling; Writing & Writers; Reading TO GARIBALDI - WITH A BOOK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When at philippi, he who would have freed Last Line: And thank my god amid the golden clang. Subject(s): Books; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Gifts & Giving; Reading TO GET TO SLEEP, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen on my cassette Last Line: Over and over again Subject(s): Books TO HENRY WRIGHT, OF MOBBERLEY, ON BUYING THE PICTURE OF F. MALEBRANCHE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, dear mr. Wright, I must send you a line Last Line: Huzza! Father malebranche and shorthand for ever. Subject(s): Auctions; Books; Malebranche, Nicolas De (1638-1715); Portraits; Reading TO HIS BOOK, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My little book, that's neat and new Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Books TO HIS BOOK, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For mart and street you seem to pine Last Line: Both lollius ruled and lepidus. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! Thou my first delight, immortal page Last Line: He be invoked, the first of gods above, %and in our strains,his praise perennial flow Subject(s): Books TO HIS BOOK, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book, and to the world impart Last Line: What's built upon esteem can ne'er decay. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To read my booke the virgin shie Last Line: And never staine a cheeke for it. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Epigrams, Book Xi, 16: 9-10 Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE (12), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the press scarce one could see Last Line: She'l runne to all adulteries. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE (4), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a bride, come forth my book, at last Last Line: Some pearls on queens, that have been counterfet. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKE (5), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never Last Line: But like a laurell, to grow green for ever. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO HIS BOOKS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For mart and street you seem to pine Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Books TO HIS MISTRESS, SENDING HER THE ARCADIA, by THOMAS BEAUMONT Poem Source First Line: Go, happy book, and ley my candia see Last Line: So thou'rt her glass where she herself may see, %and in truelovers' parts remember me Subject(s): Books TO HIS VALET, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want three days to read the iliad through! Last Line: His heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in! Subject(s): Books; Goddesses & Gods; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey TO LALLA, READING MY VERSES TOPSY-TURVY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darling little cousin, / with yout thoughtful look Last Line: Though I know the most. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Reading TO MASTER FELTHAM, ON HIS BOOK OF RESOLVES, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this unconstant age, when all mens minds Last Line: Whereby to write, I mean to live by thine. Subject(s): Books; Felltham, Owen (1602-1668); Reading TO MISS JESSY LEWARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine be the volumes, jessy fair Last Line: So prays thy faithful friend, the bard. Subject(s): Books; Gifts & Giving; Reading TO MOMUS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who read'st this book that I have writ Last Line: Anathema to it, and me. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY BOOK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven years are now elaps'd, dear ... Volume Subject(s): Books TO MY BOOK, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be looked for, book, when some but see Last Line: For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY BOOKS, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent companions of the lonely hour Last Line: On these, my unripe musings, told so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY BOOKS ON PARTING WITH THEM, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As one who destined from his friends to part Last Line: Mind shall with mind direct communion hold, %and kindred spirits meet to part no more Subject(s): Books TO MY BOOKSELLER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that mak'st gain thy end, and wisely well Last Line: Send it to bucklersbury, there 'twill, well. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO MY GOOD MASTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown Last Line: My listening heart and all the love of it! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Attics; Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading TO MY ILL READER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou say'st my lines are hard Last Line: If thou not read'st them well. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books; Reading TO RICHARD BENTLEY, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent gaze the tuneful choir among Last Line: A sigh of soft reflection. Variant Title(s): Stanzas To Mr. Bentley Subject(s): Bentley, Richard (1662-1742); Books; Reading TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I would know thee, goodyere, my thought looks Last Line: It was a knowledge, that begat that love. Variant Title(s): To The Same Subject(s): Books; Goodyer, Sir Henry (1571-1627); Reading; Goodyere, Sir Henry (1571-1627) TO THE BOOK, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Open poetry died with whitman Last Line: In you that will have their rebirth here? Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'EVERYDAY BOOK', by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like you, and your book, ingenious hone! Last Line: For while such art, wit, reading, there are shown, %he swears, 'tis not a book of every day Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Books TO THE GENTLE READER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three kinds of companions, men, women, and books Last Line: And I've frequently found them the best kind of books. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE MEMORIE OF THE DECEASED AUTHOR, W. SHAKESPEARE, by LEONARD DIGGES Poem Source First Line: Shakes-peare, at length thy pious fellowes gieu Last Line: Be sure, oru shakes-peare, thou canst neuer dye, %but crown'd with lawrell, lieu eternally Subject(s): Books TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To draw no envy, shakespeare, on thy name Last Line: And despairs day, but for thy volume's light! Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists TO THE READER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pray thee, take care, tak'st my book in hand Last Line: To read it well: that is, to understand. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE READER, by JOHN TAYLOR (1580-1653) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: All these things here collected, are not mine Last Line: If thou dost buy it, it will quit thy cost, %read it, and all thy labour is not lost Subject(s): Books TO THE READER: IF YOU ASKED ME, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want you with me, and yet you are the end Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading TO THE READERS, by FRANCOIS RABELAIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kind readers, who vouchsafe to cast an eye Last Line: For laughter is man's property alone Subject(s): Books TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I have sighed to measure Last Line: Sighed to think I read a book, %only read, perhaps, by me Subject(s): Books TO THE SOUR READER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first Last Line: The extreme scab take thee and thine, for me. Variant Title(s): To The Soure Reader Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE VERS LIBRIST WHO USES ONLY THE MINOR KEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, o mournful poet Last Line: And I'm weary of the theme. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Reading TO THOMAS PALMER ON HIS BOOK 'THE SPRITE OF TREES AND HERBS', by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When late, grave palmer, these thy grafts and flowers Last Line: And thou in them shalt live as long as fame. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO WILLIAM BEDELL, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willy, thy rhythms so sweetly run and rise Last Line: To follow him, while others follow thee. Subject(s): Books; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs TOMES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a section in my library for death Last Line: That foams around my waist Subject(s): Books TOMMY EDWARDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Reads erotic writings by women Last Line: He may come near to loving her %when she's dead Subject(s): Books; Death; Love; Writing And Writers TOO MANY BOOKS, by ROBERT LEIGHTON (1822-1869) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I would that we were only readers now Subject(s): Books TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE BODY AND THE BOOK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chambers are all in order; all the doors stand open Last Line: Then come thou forth to where I wait for thee. Subject(s): Bodies; Books; Reading TRAITOR, by F. FERTIAULT Poem Source First Line: Tis here, the book you begged for so Subject(s): Books TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sitting outside the small house near the orchard Last Line: She cocks her head at the applesound Subject(s): Books; Country Life; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Memory TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ceaseless rain is falling fast Last Line: Better than with mine own. Subject(s): Books; Reading TRIOLET TO HER HUSBAND, by F. FERTIAULT Poem Source First Line: Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Subject(s): Books TUNE IN, AMERICAN TYPE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, to be set and printed in Last Line: Squeezed flat from british pulp. He non- %ny nonny, etc Subject(s): Books; Great Britain; Printing And Printers; Typesetting TWIN DRAGON LUNCH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: At my last nome meal Last Line: Two torchlights flared. %sobered, we shone Subject(s): Books; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Teaching And Teachers TWO BOOKES OF EPIGRAMMES, SELS., by THOMAS BANCROFT Subject(s): Books TWO OF ME, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Right now I'm reading Last Line: Mind divided %down the middle Subject(s): Books TWO SONNETS: 1, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hardly there, and then it vanishes Subject(s): Books; Forgetfulness; Reading TWONESS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Marriage of body and soul, how Last Line: To where I can read it Subject(s): Books; Selflessness; Writing And Writers UNDER SORACTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Sex; Reading UNDER SORACTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Last Line: Made love in the most remote %corner of knowledge Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Sex UNPUBLISHED MAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Due to an urgent trip and a lack of foresight on my part, it Last Line: Memory isn't so good, and I'm afraid I've forgotten it' Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Printing And Printers; Publishing UNTO MY BOOKS SO GOOD TO TURN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And satisfy — obtained Subject(s): Books UPON A TABLE-BOOK PRESENTED TO A LADY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your fair hand receives this little book Last Line: Here, both the scribe and author to become. Subject(s): Books; Reading UPON FINDING DYING: AN INNTRODUCTION, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered lonely as a cloud in foyles Last Line: Preach about dying, you must practice, too Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Books; Death; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) VARITIES, OR A SURVEIGH OF RARE ... MATTERS, SELS., by DAVID PERSON Subject(s): Books VERDICT OF THE BOOK, by JOHN PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Learne here thou shalt one god most hig Last Line: And out this story first did look Subject(s): Books VERSES SENT TO MRS. T.B. WITH HIS WORKS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this book, which, like its author, you" Last Line: "no, trust the sex's sacred rule; / the gaudy dress will save the fool" Subject(s): Books; Reading VERSES TO BE PREFIXED BEFORE BERNARD LINTOT'S NEW MISCELLANY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some colinaeus praise, some bleau Last Line: For some folks read, but all folks sh --. Subject(s): Bleau, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Books; Elzevier, Louis (1540-1617); Manutius, Aldus (1450-1515); Plantin, Christophe (1514-1589); Printing And Printers; Reading; Manuzio, Aldo; Mannucci, Aldo VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF GRACE LADY GETHIN, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a painful life in study spent Last Line: And all we ought or can, in this dark state, %is what we have admir'd to imitate Subject(s): Books VERSES WROTE IN A LADY'S IVORY TABLE-BOOK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peruse my leaves through every part Subject(s): Books; Reading VERSES WROTE IN A LADY'S IVORY TABLE-BOOK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peruse my leaves through every part Last Line: He's a gold pencil tipped with lead Subject(s): Books VIE DE JESUS; ON HEARING OF A FORTHCOMING CHEAP EDITION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A book of pleasant phrase, but narrow span Last Line: A frail young saint, in lieu of god the word! Subject(s): Books; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Reading VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would now that matho were the satirist Last Line: Mammon himselfe shalbe a citizen. Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Murder; Reading; Dead, The VIRGIL, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great virgil this small parchment book enfolds Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Books VIRGILII CARMINA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love thee, little book! Last Line: With my virgil hand in hand! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers; Singing & Singers; Reading VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors WAITING FOR MY WIFE, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: As the thumbprint of every car Last Line: Margins hold that story hostage Subject(s): Books; Waiting WARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy friend, 'twill be perdition Last Line: Have long ears, or I'm mistaken! Subject(s): Advice; Books; Reading WARNING TO THE READER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes farm granaries become especially beautiful when all the oats Last Line: So I wouldn't perish, and that's a lot more important to me Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Reading WARNING TO THE READER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes farm granaries become especially beautiful when all the oats Last Line: A skull on the open boardwood floor Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings WAVELENGTH, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were sitting on the thin mattress Subject(s): Books; Togetherness; Reading WESTERN KENTUCKY FARMER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: He soaks his calloused hands Last Line: Of the finest kentucky home cooking Subject(s): Books; Farm Life; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets WHAT DID HAPPEN?, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do I ask you , reader, if that's your own hair? Last Line: Or did I see them in a coffee-table book? %what's the difference? Now they belong to you Subject(s): Books; Critics And Criticism; Newspapers; Publishing WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is wednesday. My day off Last Line: Of two soundless fighter jets. Subject(s): Books; Insomnia; Silence; Reading; Sleeplessness WHEN LEAVING THIS BEAUTIFUL BLESSED BRIANZA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And finally left the 'lord tennyson' out Subject(s): Books WHEN MOTHER READS ALOUD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "oh, thick and fast the visions crowd / my eyes, when mother reads aloud" Subject(s): Books;mothers; Reading WHEN MY MOTHER SPEAKS OF LONELINESS, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: I offer to bring her some books Last Line: The ones I've read %before and loved Subject(s): Books; Mothers WHERE BROKEN (THE DARKNESS, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cows on the spine of the hill like the spine of a book are some letters Subject(s): Books; Cows; Alphabets; Reading WHERE MY BOOKS GO, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the words that I utter Last Line: Storm-darken'd or starry bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WHIGS AND TORIES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774) Poem Text First Line: The king to oxford sent a troop of horse Last Line: For whigs admit no force but argument. Variant Title(s): Oxford And Cambridge;epigram: The Answer To Trapp's Epigram Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading WHILE READING BASHO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Basho, you made / a living writing haiku? Last Line: The goldfish are still. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WHITE BUTTONS, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Having been blown away Subject(s): Books; Parents; Reading; Parenthood WHO HATH A BOOK, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to go a-maying Last Line: Who hath a book Subject(s): Books WHO WOULD TEAR A PAGE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Than a child's book rudely torn Subject(s): Books WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: As on the blissful fields musaeus stood Last Line: Old plutarch would have loved and envied him. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Sloane, William Milligan (1906-1974); Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Historians; Educators; Professors WILLIAM PINKNEY FISHBACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say first he loved the dear home Last Line: Shall he live longest in men's memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading WITH A BARRIE BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old year dies, and a new is born Last Line: Lo, here's barrie! Subject(s): Books; Hate; Holidays; Laughter; Lies; Love; New Year; Reading WITH A BOOK, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You fain would know the story of my life? Last Line: Then turn these leaves, and you my soul shall know. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Books; Reading WITH A CHILD-BOOK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is lore of more devices Last Line: This old tailor and his mice is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Reading WITH A COPY OF 'A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES', by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book Last Line: May find that golden maidens dance through thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Books; Reading WITH EACH CLOUDED PEAK: NARRATION OF A NARRATION, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Red, he said, red and as hard as chalk Last Line: With the person I was at ten, he said, I have nothing more in common Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets WORD TO THE WISE, by OCTAVIO ARMAND Poem Source First Line: If on your walks you have moved some stones Last Line: So have I Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Language; Poetry And Poets; Wisdom WRITTEN AT MICHAEL GOOD, FINE BOOKS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: In afternoon light, san anselmo, california Last Line: Brings us back to books Subject(s): Books; Writing And Writers WRITTEN IN A COMMON-PLACE BOOK, CALLED 'THE BOOK OF FOLLIES', by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This tribute's from a wretched elf Last Line: Then shut the book, o god! For ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Books; Reading WRITTEN IN A LADY'S PRAYER BOOK, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling this useless book away Last Line: Through all the joys on earth to those above. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips WRITTEN ON ONE OF THE IVORY-LEAVES OF A LADY'S POCKET-BOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How blest! Could in cloe's heart Last Line: But wretched still. If there as here, %another fool might do the same Subject(s): Books YE SCHOLAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ho! Ye scholar recketh not Last Line: And pour our laughter out most tenderly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Learning; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading YOUR MANUSCRIPT SHINES, by SAMUEL BEN YOSEF HALEVI HANAGID Poem Source First Line: Your manuscript shines Last Line: My rebukes have been open, my love concealed Subject(s): Books YOUTH, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life in the book of lovers bade me look Last Line: "I go to add another page to this!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Love; Love - Nature Of; Reading ZOOM!, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It begins as a house, an end terrace Subject(s): Books; Reading |
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