The Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Poems about library (21 Poems)
A Letter to my Sister (Charles Frederick White Poems)
Allene, sweet sister, with the bloodOf youth yet coursing through your cheeks,I was informed, not long ago,That you had quit ...
Seth Compton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When I died, the circulating libraryWhich I built up for Spoon River,And managed for the good of inquiring minds,Was sold ...
Sonnet XXVI. In A Library. 1. (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
IN my friend's library I sit alone,Hemmed in by books. The dead and living there,Shrined in a thousand volumes rich ...
Unto my Books-so good to turn (Emily Dickinson Poems)
604Unto my Books-so good to turn-Far ends of tired Days-It half endears the Abstinence-And Pain-is missed-in Praise-As Flavors-cheer Retarded GuestsWith ...
Athenaeum (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
History, biography, adventure found in the pages I read how long I wanted to linger in reading the names on ...
Books (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Paper, ink and thought Fiction and reality Passion and purpose Poetry and prose Map and drawing Monographs and periodicals Card ...
Barrington (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Land in the rough By design and by tradition. A sense of place. Stone wall and lake and meadow Wood ...
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books (Robert Frost Poems)
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
Unto my Books — so good to turn — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Unto my Books -- so good to turn -- Far ends of tired Days -- It half endears the Abstinence ...
Night’s sentinel (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
Tomes (Billy Collins Poem)
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
The Other Tiger (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
Tom Paine (Robert William Service Poems)
An Englishman was Thomas Paine Who bled for liberty; But while his fight was far from vain He died in ...
My Hundred Books (Robert William Service Poems)
A thousand books my library Contains; And all are primed, it seems to me With brains. Mine are so few ...
Chamfort (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THERE'S Chamfort. He's a sample. Locked himself in his library with a gun, Shot off his nose and shot out ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Seth Compton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When I died, the circulating library Which I built up for Spoon River, And managed for the good of inquiring ...
A Library Of Skulls (Thomas Lux Poems)
Shelves and stacks and shelves of skulls, a Dewey Decimal number inked on each unfurrowed forehead. Here's a skull who, ...