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Poem by Lesbia Harford


Summer Lightning


Just now, as warm day faded from our sight
Hosts of archangels, fleet
On lighting-winged feet
Passed by, all glimmering in the busy night

Sweet angels, bringing no blinding truth to birth
Give us no messages
From heavenly palaces;
Leave us our dark trees and our starlight earth.



Lesbia Harford


Lesbia Harford's other poems:
  1. Suburban Dames
  2. A lady and I were walking
  3. My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies
  4. Why does she put me to many indignities
  5. How funny it would be if dreamy I


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