Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MONOCHROME, by MARGARET W. HOBSON



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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!





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