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Harold Monro Biography

Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was an English poet born in Brussels and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, which helped many poets bring their work before the public.

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The white saucer like some full moon descends
At last from the clouds of the table above.

Clouds, Moon, Saucer, White

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.

Bright, Cat, Drawn, Eye, Poetry, Tea

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.

Arrows, Bow, Cupid, Games, Jesus, Wondering

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

Art, Children, Day, Dreamy, Gentle, Water

What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament.

Bird, Dawn, Eye, Glowing, Saw, Sky

The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

Apt, Art, Expression, Imagination, Tickles

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.

Book, Course, Men, Treatise, Understanding

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