What is the name of the book in his hands,
his sanctum’s seam, that wild unaccompanied
outer world, whose hem you may not mend?
Camp here, in this dwelling.
Locations in Harold's Library
- Books and Libraries: Poems (book)
- page 27
- in "The Love of Books"
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