Harold Edward Monro Cool Poems
- 1. Week-end
I
The train! The twelve o'clock for paradise.
Hurry, or it will try to creep away.
... - 2. Children Of Love
The holy boy
Went from his mother out in the cool of the day
Over the sun-parched fields
And in among the olives shining green and shining grey.
... - 3. Unknown Country
Here, in this other world, they come and go
With easy dream-like movements to and fro.
They stare through lovely eyes, yet do not seek
An answering gaze, or that a man should speak.
... - 4. Real Property
'Tell me about that harvest field.'
Oh! Fifty acres of living bread.
The colour has painted itself in my heart;
The form is patterned in my head.
... - 5. Child Of Dawn
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides.
Child of the day,
To thee;
...
