<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390990" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bibliomaniac's Bride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The women-folk are like to books,--<br> Most pleasing to the eye,<br>Whereon if anybody looks<br> He feels disposed to buy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear that many are for sale,--<br> Those that record no dates,<br>And such editions as regale<br> The view with colored plates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of every quality and grade<br> And size they may be found,--<br>Quite often beautifully made,<br> As often poorly bound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, as for me, had I my choice,<br> I'd choose no folio tall,<br>But some octavo to rejoice<br> My sight and heart withal,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As plump and pudgy as a snipe;<br> Well worth her weight in gold;<br>Of honest, clean, conspicuous type,<br> And just the size to hold!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With such a volume for my wife<br> How should I keep and con!<br>How like a dream should run my life<br> Unto its colophon!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her frontispiece should be more fair<br> Than any colored plate;<br>Blooming with health, she would not care<br> To extra-illustrate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in her pages there should be<br> A wealth of prose and verse,<br>With now and then a jeu d'esprit,--<br> But nothing ever worse!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prose for me when I wished for prose,<br> Verse when to verse inclined,--<br>Forever bringing sweet repose<br> To body, heart, and mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, I should bind this priceless prize<br> In bindings full and fine,<br>And keep her where no human eyes<br> Should see her charms, but mine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With such a fair unique as this<br> What happiness abounds!<br>Who--who could paint my rapturous bliss,<br> My joy unknown to Lowndes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390990" data-title="The Bibliomaniac's Bride de Eugene Field" data-description="The women-folk are like to books,-- Most pleasing to the eye, Whereon if anybody looks He feels disposed to buy. I hear that many are for sale,-- Those that record no dates, And such editions as regale The view with colored plates. Of every ..."></div> </div> </div>

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