Henry Forbes Summers CB (18 August 1911 – 22 December 2005), aka "Hal Summers", was a senior British civil servant. He published several volumes of poetry.
Quotes
- My old cat is dead,
Who would butt me with his head.- "My Old Cat", as given in The Nation's Favourite Twentieth Century Poems, pub. BBC, 1999
- Four o’clock strikes,
There’s a rising hum,
Then the doors fly open,
The children come.- "Out of School"
- Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.- "A Spell for Midnight"
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