Harold Edward Monro Suddenly Poems

  • 1.
    I

    The train! The twelve o'clock for paradise.
    Hurry, or it will try to creep away.
    ...
  • 2.
    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.
    They are the angels of that watery world,
    With so much knowledge that they just aspire
    To move themselves on golden fins,
    Or fill their paradise with fire
    ...
  • 4.
    I

    If suddenly a clod of earth should rise,
    And walk about, and breathe, and speak, and love,
    ...
  • 5.
    Since man has been articulate,
    Mechanical, improvidently wise,
    (Servant of Fate),
    He has not understood the little cries
    ...
  • 6.
    When the tea is brought at five o'clock,
    And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
    The little black cat with bright green eyes
    Is suddenly purring there.
    ...
Total 6 Suddenly Poems by Harold Edward Monro

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