A Book - by
There is no frigate like a book
/ To take us lands away,
/ Nor any coursers like a page
/ Of…
reading
Lines for a Bookmark - by
You who read…
/ May you seek
/ As you look;
/ May you keep
/ What you need;
/ May you care
/ What you choose;
/ And know here
/ In this book
/ Something strange,
/ Something…
To Any Reader - by
As from the house your mother sees
/ You playing round the garden trees,
/ So you may see, if you will look
/ Through the…
The Land of Story-Books - by
At evening when the lamp is lit,
/ Around the fire my parents sit;
/ They sit at home and talk and sing,
/ And do…
When You are Old - by
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
/ And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
/ And slowly read,…
Marginalia Found in Books at the Vancouver Public Library - by
In T.S. Eliot’s Collected, a hand written dedication,
/ To all self-worshippers.
/
/ Over the line in Lord Nelson’s letter to Lady Hamilton
/ where…