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Harold Monro
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“O cool glad pasture; living tree, tall corn, Great cliff, or languid sloping sand, cold sea, Waves: river curving; you, eternal flowers, Give me content, while I can think of you: Give me your living breath! Back to your rampart, Death!”
Harold Monro (1879–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Living", line 36, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 13.
“Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try; He has offered his bow for the game. But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.”
Harold Monro (1879–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Children of Love", line 34, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 154.
“The children eat and wriggle and laugh, The two old ladies stroke their silk; But the cat is grown small and thin with desire, Transformed to a creeping lust for milk.”
Harold Monro (1879–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milk for the Cat", line 17, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 163.
“His poetry, as a whole, is more nearly the real right thing than any of the poetry of a somewhat older generation than mine except Mr. Yeats's.”
Harold Monro (1879–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: T. S. Eliot, in Alida Monro (ed.) The Collected Poems of Harold Monro (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1933) p. xiv.