Project Gutenberg 2010-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 136 Raplee, Elizabeth Virginia 1900 1982 To a Skull on My Bookshelf Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "To a Skull on My Bookshelf" by Elizabeth Virginia Raplee is a poem published in 1937, likely during the 20th century's early modern literary period. The poem explores themes of mortality and the macabre, reflecting on the nature of life, death, and the mysteries of human existence as symbolized by a skull resting on the speaker’s bookshelf. In this reflective piece, the speaker personifies the skull, imagining its potential insights into the secrets of life and death. The poem contemplates the origins of the skull, pondering who once possessed it and how it came to be removed from its resting place. The speaker's musings underscore an existential curiosity about the fate awaiting all humans, contemplating the possibility that they too may become curiosities for future generations, much like the skull itself. Through rich imagery and a tone that oscillates between eerie and introspective, the poem invites readers to consider their relationship with mortality and the legacies they leave behind. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://book.klll.cc/files/32499/32499-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 68.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Poetry PS Text Category: Poetry 28753 2025-10-13T09:01:08.389390 text/html 24950 2021-01-06T15:38:42 text/html 62080 2025-10-13T09:01:10.035375 application/epub+zip 60907 2025-10-13T09:01:08.841405 application/epub+zip 60907 2025-10-13T09:01:08.607398 application/epub+zip 90687 2025-10-13T09:01:11.065425 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 84568 2025-10-13T09:01:09.794403 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 84735 2022-09-15T04:58:23.417472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 20942 2025-10-13T09:01:08.285401 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20837 2021-01-06T15:38:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17528 2025-10-13T09:01:11.187393 application/rdf+xml 29569 2025-10-13T09:01:08.665409 image/jpeg 5418 2025-10-13T09:01:08.636413 image/jpeg 53764 2021-01-06T15:38:42 application/octet-stream application/zip 7704 2021-01-06T15:38:42 application/octet-stream application/zip 54042 2025-10-13T09:01:08.395397 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog