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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TERRIBLE DOOR, by HAROLD MONRO Poet's Biography
First Line: Too long outside your door I have shivered
Last Line: Who waits, at the terrible door, but I?
Subject(s): Love
First Line: Too long outside your door I have shivered
Last Line: Who waits, at the terrible door, but I?
Subject(s): Love
Too long outside your door I have shivered.
You open it? I will not stay.
I'm haunted by your ashen beauty.
Take back your hand. I have gone away.
Don't talk, but move to that near corner.
I loathe the long cold shadow here.
We will stand a moment in the lamplight,
Until I watch you hard and near.
Happy release! Good-bye for ever!
Here at the corner we say good-bye.
But if you want me, if you do need me,
Who waits, at the terrible door, but I?
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