Hal Summers

Hal Summers CB (18 August 1911 – 22 December 2005) 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"