Who is Harold Monro
Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was an English poet born in Brussels, Belgium. As the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public.Life and career
Monro was born at 137 chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles/St Gillis, Brussels, on 14 March 1879, as the youngest of three surviving children of Edward William Monro (1848–1889), civil engineer, and his wife and first cousin, Arabel Sophia (1849–1926), daughter of Peter John Margary, also a civil engineer. Monro's father was born at Marylebone and died aged 41 when Monro was only nine years old. This loss may have influenced his character as a poet. The Monro family was well established in Bloomsbury. His paternal grandfather, Dr Henry ...
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Harold Monro Poems
- Thistledown
This might have been a place for sleep,
But, as from that small hollow there
Hosts of bright thistledown begin
Their dazzling journey through the air, ... - 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. ... - Living
Slow bleak awakening from the morning dream
Brings me in contact with the sudden day.
I am alive â?? this I.
I let my fingers move along my body. ... - Suburb
Dull and hard the low wind creaks
Among the rustling pampas plumes.
Drearily the year consumes
Its fifty-two insipid weeks. ... - Man Carrying Bale
The tough hand closes gently on the load;
Out of the mind, a voice
Calls 'Lift!' and the arms, remembering well their work,
Lengthen and pause for help. ...
Top 10 most used topics by Harold Monro
Night 14 Love 11 I Love You 11 Suddenly 9 Heart 9 Delight 8 Cool 8 Away 8 Head 8 Mind 8Harold Monro Quotes
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Faizafazal9: strange meetings. if suddenly a clod of earth should rise, and walk about, and breathe, and speak, and love, how one would tremble, and in what surprise gasp; “can you move?” i see men walking & i always feel: “ earth how have you done this? what can you be?” harold monroAquetica5573: when the tea is brought at five o'clockand all the neat curtains are drawn with care,the little black cat with bright green eyesis suddenly purring there.,harold monro, collected poems,cats, tea,
Gnilwoce: “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.” ― harold monro, collected poems
Lahmccabe: may all our poetry readings begin with a ´ripple of expectation’ and an ´expectant hush’ a description of a yeats reading at harold monro’s the poetry bookshop.
Piecorbett: exploring harold monro’s wonderful poem overheard on a saltmarsh.
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