Harold Monro Delight Poems
- 1. 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.
... - 2. Child Of Dawn
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
To thee;
... - 3. Gravikty
I
Fit for perpetual worship is the power
That holds our bodies safely to the earth.
... - 4. Youth In Arms
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... - 5. Lake Leman
It is the sacred hour: above the far
Low emerald hills that northward fold,
Calmly, upon the blue the evening star
Floats, wreathed in dusky gold.
... - 6. Midnight Lamentation
When you and I go down
Breathless and cold,
Our faces both worn back
To earthly mould,
... - 7. Week-end
I
The train! The twleve o'clock for paradise.
Hurry, or it will try to creep away.
Out in the country every one is wise:
... - 8. Goldfish
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
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