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| Friday, April 2, 2010 6:51PM | | | | Book Lover (poem) | Tags: poetry, poem, Emily Dickinson, Brontes, Heathcliff, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, seventeenth century, metaphysical poets, poet
| | | She read books late into the night
Finished all the novels of Jane Austen by age eleven
Conversed with Emily Dickinson
Charlotte and Emily Bronte were the sisters she never had.
Thought other girls silly, boys stupid
Kissed one boy because his name was Heathcliff
Imagined having a little Heathcliff of her own.
Worried parents sent her to a psychiatrist.
At college her head was always in a book
Tall, willowy, thinner than a book mark
She swept across campus in her scarlet robe
Like a ghost come back from an earlier era.
Intense, driven, hungry, she prowled the library stacks
Worshipped at the altar of the metaphysical poets
Became Andrew Marvell's coy mistress
Dreamed of being ravished by John Donne. | | | | | |
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