I have often noticed 

A blush velvet chair 

In the small side window 

Of my local bookshop 

Nobody seems to use it 

And its stark vacancy 

Is even more confused 

By the presence of a book 

Partially opened and half hidden 

From direct view by a leg of the chair 

The Origins of Romantic Poetry 

Is the title of the book 

Which was published in Baltimore in 1949