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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...MY YOUTH by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES LADY OF CASTLENORE; A.D. 1700 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO MR. BOWRING ON HIS POETICAL TRANSLATIONS by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE CRITIC by S. F. BATCHELDER FOR THE QUEEN MOTHER by JOHN BETJEMAN |
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