John Betjeman House Poems

  • 1.
    Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
    It isn't fit for humans now,
    There isn't grass to graze a cow.
    Swarm over, Death!
    ...
  • 2.
    Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy,
    White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress,
    Fresh from the bathroom and soft in the nursery
    Soap scented fingers I long to caress.
    ...
  • 3.
    The heavy mahogany door with its wrought-iron screen
    Shuts. And the sound is rich, sympathetic, discreet.
    The sun still shines on this eighteenth-century scene
    With Edwardian faience adornment-Devonshire Street.
    ...
Total 3 House Poems by John Betjeman

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