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Harold Monro

1879–1932


Harold Monro (1879–1932) was a British poet and publisher, born in Brussels, who founded the Poetry Bookshop in London in 1913 and published the Georgian Poetry anthologies and many young poets there.

His own books include Strange Meetings (1917), from which the title piece here is drawn. The poems come from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).

  1. The Nightingale Near the House
  2. Every Thing
  3. Strange Meetings
  4. The Wind
  5. A Country Dance in Provence
  6. God
  7. Child of Dawn
  8. Lake Leman
  9. Milk for the Cat
  10. Overheard on a Saltmarsh
  11. Children of Love
  12. Solitude
  13. Week-End
  14. The Bird at Dawn
  15. Gravity
  16. Goldfish
  17. Dog
  18. Man Carrying Bale
  19. Thistledown
  20. Real Property
  21. Unknown Country
  22. A flower is looking through the ground
  23. Suburb
  24. Youth in Arms
  25. She Was Young and Blithe and Fair

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