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Subject: PICTURE BOOKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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