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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BOOKS I OUGHT TO READ, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: On dusty shelves in serried ranks they stand Last Line: The books I ought to read! Subject(s): Books; Reading | |||
ON dusty shelves in serried ranks they stand, Reproachful thousands, quaint, and grave and great. My guilty conscience hears their mute commands, Yet day by day -- they wait. Their army grows more deadly every year; Their captain-names I cannot call to mind. A friend amid the order would, I fear, Be very hard to find. But to a corner shelf by most forgot, I steal, and to my conscience pay no heed, With boon companions dear. Yet these are not The books I ought to read! | 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 A CHARM SAID UNDER AN OAK by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN |
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