Two Little Books
Charles Inniss
Bowen
Bowen, Charles Inniss
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Kailey
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem signed C. Inness Bowen.
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Bowen was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/371). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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Two little books are mine to
read—
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Two Little Book
s.
Two little books are mine to
read—
Two wondrous volumes wise ;
Two books alone are all I need
To read with loving eyes.
So beauteous are they to behold,
And unadorned by art ;
Sweet Nature fringed their lids with gold,
The title-page—a heart.
Two little books are mine to read ;
But two books make me wise.
Two books alone are all I need :
My dearest loved one’s eyes.
C. Inniss Bowen
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