 SILENT room— gray with a dusty blight £\ Of loneliness; A room with not enough of life or light Its form to dress. Books enough though ! The groaning sofa bears A goodly store — Books on the window-seat, and on the chairs, And on the floor. Books...  Leaves of Life - Pàgina 13per Edith Nesbit - 1888 - 185 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1887 - 202 pàgines
...Europe in raising an imperishable Memorial to SHAKSPEARE. THE BIBLIOPHILE'S REVERIE. By E. NESBIT. A silent room — gray with a dusty blight Of loneliness...wholly vain. Books in my hands — books in my heart enshrined — Books in my brain. My friends are they : for children and for wife They serve me too... | |
 | 1887 - 196 pàgines
...enough though ! The groaning sofa bears A goodly store — Books on the window-seat, and on the chairs Books of all sorts of soul, all sorts of age, All...wholly vain. Books in my hands — books in my heart enshrined — Books in my brain. My friends are they : for children and for wife They serve me too... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1888 - 572 pàgines
...from the cloth whose hue distract« One's weary nerves, To yellow parchment, binding rare old tracte It serves— deserves. Books on the shelves, and in...where'er one looks Books everywhere! Books ! books 1 the only things in life 1 find Not wholly vain. Books in шу hands -books in my heart enshrined—... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1907 - 504 pàgines
...all, for all the thoughts of you Which makethem smell more sweet than other violets do. 399 II.— AMONG HIS BOOKS. A SILENT room— gray with a dusty...wholly vain. Books in my hands — books in my heart enshrined — Books in my brain. My friends are they : for children and for wife They serve me too... | |
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