Author Frances Darwin Cornford When someone's happy in a house there shows A chink of honey-coloured light beneath the bedroom door, Where once a thunder-purple gloom oozed out across the floor; And even the stairs smell like an early rose. Tags Short Poems Rate this poem Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 No votes yet Rate Log in or register to post comments