Christopher Morley Poems

I OFTEN wander on the beach
Where once, so brown of limb,
The biting air, the roaring surf
Summoned me to swim.
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There were two cheerful pronouns
And nought did them disturb:
Until they met, out walking.
A conjugative verb.
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Animal crackers and cocoa to drink,
That is the finest of suppers I think;
When I'm grown up and can have what I please
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WHY is it that the poet tells
So little of the sense of smell?
These are the odors I love well:
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I'M glad our house is a little house,
Not too tall nor too wide:
I'm glad the hovering butterflies
Feel free to come inside.
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DOWN-SLIPPING Time, sweet, swift, and shallow stream,
Here, like a boulder, lies this afternoon
Across your eager flow. So you shall stay,
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AT six-long ere the wintry dawn-
There sounded through the silent hall
To where I lay, with blankets drawn
Above my ears, a plaintive call.
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AS I sat, to sift my dreaming
To the meet and needed word,
Came a merry Interruption
With insistence to be heard.
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The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.
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TRUTH is enough for prose:
Calmly it goes
To tell just what it knows.
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