WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Cobwebs from a Library Corner cover

Cobwebs from a Library Corner

Chapter 1: COBWEBS FROM A LIBRARY CORNER
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

The volume collects short humorous and satirical poems and light verses that riff on literary life, book collecting, authorship, and reading. Many pieces gently parody bibliomania and literary pretension while alternating with whimsical reflections on love, urban and rural life, ambition, and everyday oddities. Arranged in themed groups, the verse uses playful rhyme and ironic observation to present witty sketches, aphoristic meditations, and comic character studies that emphasize human foibles and bookish pleasures.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Cobwebs from a Library Corner

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: Cobwebs from a Library Corner

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Release date: December 14, 2008 [eBook #27534]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COBWEBS FROM A LIBRARY CORNER ***

 

These verses of Mr. Bangs’s have appeared from time to time in the various Harper Periodicals, and elsewhere.

OUT IN THE COLD

COBWEBS FROM A
LIBRARY CORNER

By
John Kendrick Bangs

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS

MDCCCXCIX

TO
SISTER ANNE