Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRICKET, by VINCENT STARRETT


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First Line: The cricket sings upon the - no! Not that!
Last Line: Lone obligato to my lonely dream.
Subject(s): Crickets


The cricket sings upon the -- No! not that!
I have no hearth where haply he may sing.
Pity for one who marks the planets swing
From the high window of a city flat;
A pigeon-hole where careless circumstance
Thrust me away, some dozen years ago,
Forgetting to return. And time is slow. . . .

And I am through with casual romance.
The cricket sings: I cannot place his song,
But of my restless thought he is a part.
Deep in some secret crevice of my heart
He has found bed and board. And time is long. . . .
And I would miss that cheerless, cheerful theme,
Lone obligato to my lonely dream.





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