Hal Summers

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"