FEBRUARY TWILIGHT (Monday Poem)

by Sara Teasdale


I stood beside a hill
    Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
    From the cold evening glow.


There was no other creature
    That saw what I could see--
I stood and watched the evening star
    As long as it watched me.



from The Sky is Full of Song selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Dirk Zimmer, 1983, Harper & Row