Harold Edward Monro Gentle Poems
- 1. Week-end
I
The train! The twelve o'clock for paradise.
Hurry, or it will try to creep away.
... - 2. Solitude
When you have tidied all things for the night,
And while your thoughts are fading to their sleep,
You'll pause a moment in the late firelight,
Too sorrowful to weep.
... - 3. Every Thing
Since man has been articulate,
Mechanical, improvidently wise,
(Servant of Fate),
He has not understood the little cries
... - 4. 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.
... - 5. Child Of Dawn
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides.
Child of the day,
To thee;
... - 6. Gravity
I
Fit for perpetual worship is the power
That holds our bodies safely to the earth.
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