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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION FOR A LIBRARY, by GEORGE SEIBEL
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
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
Put on the cowl, take up thy staff!
We'll fare forth to a holy land --
Of consecrated wells to quaff,
On consecrated soil to stand.
It is the holy land of thought,
The world's perpetual Palestine,
Where mankind's saviours wept and wrought
Their benediction, books divine.
Where Homer saw with sightless eyes;
Where Dante loved, and loved in vain;
Where Shakespeare, wisest of the wise,
Is throned with Goethe and Montaigne.
It is the land of deathless books --
Each tome a monument sublime
To which the race in worship looks
Across the ancient aisles of time.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
TWO SONNETS: 1 by DAVID LEHMAN
THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE by DENISE LEVERTOV
FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL
POETRY MACHINES by CATE MARVIN
LENDING LIBRARY by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
HEAR ME, O ALLAH! by GEORGE SEIBEL