<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540887" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Books</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead, <br>Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, <br>And silk octavos, bound in brown and red, <br>That tales of love and chivalry unfold. <br>Heap me in volumes of fine vellum wrought, <br>Creamed with the close content of silent speech; <br>Wrap me in sapphire tapestries of thought <br>From some old epic out of common reach. <br>I would my shroud were verse-embroidered too--- <br>Your verse for preference—in starry stitch, <br>And powdered o’er with rhymes that poets woo,<br>Breathing dream-lyrics in moon-measures rich. <br>Night holds me with a horror of the grave <br>That knows not poetry, nor song, nor you; <br>Nor leaves of love that down the ages weave <br>Romance and fire in burnished cloths of blue. <br>Oh, bury me in books, and I’ll not mind <br>The cold, slow worms that coil around my head; <br>Since my lone soul may turn the page and find <br>The lines you wrote to me, when I am dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Zora+Bernice+May+Cross">Zora Bernice May Cross</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=540887" data-title="Books de Zora Bernice May Cross" data-description="Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead, Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, And silk octavos, bound in brown and red, That tales of love and chivalry unfold. Heap me in volumes of fine vellum wrought, Creamed with the close content of silent s..."></div> </div> </div>

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