David McCord
David McCord
David Thompson Watson McCordwas an American poet and college fundraiser...
community good happy talked wife
There was a need for it. I talked to my wife . . . This community has been good to us, and we're happy to give as much as we can." ()
caught god
By and by God caught his eye." ()
kings comfort sanctuary
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.
book fall
Books fall open, you fall in.
moving rocks islands
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
men doors fire
March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.
sand anthology handful
A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.
lying eye men
But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
exercise men soul
A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
life gone machines
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
life rich
Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.
book fall delighted
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.
life fit garments
Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.
teaching toes doe
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.