Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWILIGHT BY THE MALL, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB


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First Line: The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof
Last Line: Defiant, private note must pass away.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof,
And northward far of massive block on block
The spire of Grace is dim; the stubborn rock
Echoes beneath the roar of wheel and hoof
Along Broadway—a human warp whose woof
Is spun by hurrying crowds that bridgeward flock;
Some with glad faces, some who seem to mock,
Some sad, and some who coldly hold aloof.

Yet here is calm for which the self has sought!
When crushing grief and stormy rapture meet
And mingle here, as night subdues the day,
Be silent, till thy anxious soul has caught
The harmony wherein the incomplete,
Defiant, private note must pass away.





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