David McCord
David McCord
David Thompson Watson McCordwas an American poet and college fundraiser...
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.
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.
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.
education wise book
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.