Overheard On A Saltmarsh

Harold Edward Monro 1879 ( Brussels, ) – 1932 ( Broadstairs,)



Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
  
Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?
  
Give them me.
  
No.
  
Give them me. Give them me.
  
No.
  
Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.
  
Goblin, why do you love them so?
  
They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
  
Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
  
Give me your beads, I want them.
  
No.
  
I will howl in a deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them.
  
No.
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Scheme A B C C AB D EFEF G B GDB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 588
Words 129
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1, 3

Harold Edward Monro

Harold Edward Monro was an English poet born in Brussels. As the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public more…

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