Harold Edward Monro White Poems

  • 1.
    Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:
    It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
    Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
    Stares. And you sing, you sing.
    ...
  • 2.
    I

    The train! The twelve o'clock for paradise.
    Hurry, or it will try to creep away.
    ...
  • 3.
    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.
    ...
  • 4.
    O gentle vision in the dawn:
    My spirit over faint cool water glides.
    Child of the day,
    To thee;
    ...
  • 5.
    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 5 White Poems by Harold Edward Monro

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