one-covered

Updated: May 19, 2025

Before I had quite forgotten him, however, I did pick up one other book of about his size, and in the same one-covered condition; and this attracted me more, because it was in verse. Rhyme had always a sort of magnetic power over me, whether I caught at any idea it contained or not. This was written in the measure which I afterwards learned was called Spenserian.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)