Judging a Book By Its Cover

Books, NaPoWriMo, Prompted 1 Minute 
A Book of Images by W.T. Horton & W. B. Yeats
Published 1898

What wonderment do you contain
Are you an account of actualities
Or a tome of terrors
A book of observations
Or imaginings
Your title so simple
Your cover art surreal
With its hand drawn landscape 
Or is it a dreamscape
Did you inspire
Did you create controversy
Did you find a home on many Victorian library shelves
Or did you gather dust in obscure bookshops
Unnoticed and unread
Your goldenrod cover calling to patrons like a beacon

-gws
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