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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON 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 | |||
The rows of letters on the page Can talk, for grown-ups tell me so; But pictures tell me, at my age, Quite all the things I need to know. But when there are no pictures there, (And many books are made that way) I open pages anywhere And guess at what the letters say. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY by RANDALL JARRELL COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE A BABY AT THE PARTY by BURGES JOHNSON |
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