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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MONOCHROME, by MARGARET W. HOBSON First Line: Wandering one evening Last Line: Behind her cross again! | |||
Wandering one evening Down Twenty-ninth and Third Watching for the first star, Listening for a bird, Looking at the children Half-clothed in the heat Pattering the pavement With their naked feet. Never saw the first star Never heard a bird, Passed the little children And never spoke a word; But one breathless moment Set my heart afire, It was the deep, arresting blue 'Round St. Paul's slender spire -- Bluer than the cornflower, Darker than the sea -- Whistler's blue obsession Justified for me. Bright sapphire enchantment And sorrow's midnight hue Blended deep together In impenetrable blue. Sometimes in the spring, St. Paul's Stands in silver rain -- But oh, to find heartbreaking blue Behind her cross again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAIL TEESSIDE! by CECIL DAY LEWIS IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH? by MARIANNE MOORE WATERS OF BABYLON by LOUIS UNTERMEYER ON LIBERTY AND SLAVERY by GEORGE MOSES HORTON A LULLABY by THOMALLY HOLBECH ANDERSON POET'S CORNER by ALFRED AUSTIN |
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