Once upon a midnight dreary...
'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe.
A Halloween classic. That mixture of dread, hope, dark dreams and visions that Poe could express so well.
Printed on heavy paper, pamphlet-bound, cased in midnightblack Japanese silk and blue patterned Italian art paper.
Of course, bound with a Red Thread.
Size: 15 cm or 6 inches high, 11cm or 4.25 inches wide, 0.6 cm or .25 inches thick, 16 pages.
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot,...
Everyone knows the first line. Most know the first verse, but after
that it often breaks down into 'hum-hum'hum' until the next chorus.
This New Year's Eve you can belt it out with the best of them straight out of this Small Poetry volume of the same name.
You
get two poems here. 'Auld Lang Syne' by Scotsman Robert Burns and 'The
Death of the Old Year' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the English Poet
Laureate. I kinda like their juxta position.
Printed on heavy paper, pamphlet-bound, cased in red, patterned Japanese silk and grey, patterned Japanese Chiyogami art paper.
Of course, bound with a Red Thread.
Size: 15 cm or 6 inches high, 11cm or 4.25 inches wide, 0.6 cm or .25 inches thick, 16 pages.
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If you can keep your head when all about you...
Two poems, 'If' by Rudyard Kipling and 'Which are You?' by Eller Wheeler Wilcox in a small volume I call 'Encouragement'.
You
might call it 'Get off you a**' and leave it for that lazybones as a
small hint. Or it might be a 'Well done!' and left as an appreciation.
How you interpret it, is all up to you.
Printed on heavy paper, pamphlet-bound, cased in blue, patterned Japanese silk and tan and turquoise patterned French art paper.
Of course, bound with a Red Thread.
Size: 15 cm or 6 inches high, 11cm or 4.25 inches wide, 0.6 cm or .25 inches thick, 16 pages.
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When you were a tadpole and I was a fish...
Not all love poems are sappy-sweet or erotically-hot. Some are clever,
witty descriptions how a love evolves, from that first meeting to those
long evenings of companionship.
You could use it as a gift to
that special someone, just a small token of your love, maybe together
with a reservation at the same New York City restaurant mentioned in
the text.
Printed on heavy paper, pamphlet-bound, cased in grass-green Japanese silk and green, patterned Italian art paper.
Of course, bound with a Red Thread.
Size: 15 cm or 6 inches high, 11cm or 4.25 inches wide, 0.6 cm or .25 inches thick, 16 pages.
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From fairest creatures we desire increase, ...
William Shakespeare.
By many considered the greatest English, if
not World-wide, writer and playwright so far. His works have been
translated into all existing languages, even into Klingon.
This volume features his sonnets #1 to #12.
I plan on eventually publishing all his 154 sonnets.
Printed on heavy paper, pamphlet-bound, cased in grey Japanese silk and red and blue, patterned Italian art paper.
Of course, bound with a Red Thread.
Size: 15 cm or 6 inches high, 11cm or 4.25 inches wide, 0.6 cm or .25 inches thick, 16 pages.
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You probably guessed it. I've opened my own Etsy-shop.
I'm crafting small volumes of poetry, bound in silk and decorative papers. Just the right size for a small gift or a beginning poetry library. At US$ 8.-- a booklet, not expensive either.
Thus also my post about Copyrights earlier.
Now I just need to spread the word...