Harold Monro

Harold Monro was a British poet, editor, and bookseller active in the early twentieth century. He is best known for founding the Poetry Bookshop in London and for his lyrical poetry that often explores themes of urban loneliness and domestic life. Biographie ↓Plus ↓

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The Bird at Dawn

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. He was standing on a tree, All in blossom overflowing ; And he purposely looked hard at me, At first, as if to question merrily : " Where are you going ? " But next some far more serious thing to say I could not answer, could not look away. Oh, that hard, round, and so distracting eye Little mirror of all sky !- And then the after-song another tree

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While We Sleep

The earth takes up our bodies, every one, And brings them slowly backward to the dark ; Then on her shadowed side we droop and slumber, Turned from the sun. (Meanwhile He covers continents in light One after other, so they stretch and wake, Live their day through and droop again to slumber : Day, night : day, night.) The stars shine forth and disappear again, Roaring about in space above our heads, While we are folded to the earth in slumber With dreaming brain. We travel through the darkness : we are spun Upward through rays of light into the morning ; We waken with the earth : we glide from slumber Toward the sun.

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Harold Monro was a British poet, editor, and bookseller who lived from 1879 to 1932. He founded the Poetry Bookshop in London in 1913, which became a central meeting place for poets and readers and also published poetry. Monro edited the periodicals The Poetry Review and Poetry and Drama, helping to promote modernist and Georgian poetry. His own verse often addresses everyday urban life, loneliness, and the quiet moments of domestic existence, using clear imagery and a restrained, musical style. Though sometimes associated with the Georgian poets, his work also shows sympathy with more experimental currents of his time. His poetry collections include works such as Strange Meetings. Monro's significance lies less in any single school than in his practical support for poetry through publishing, bookselling, and editorial work, and he remains an important figure in early twentieth-century British literary culture.

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