Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A LONDON PLANE-TREE, by AMY LEVY


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First Line: Green is the plane-tree in the square
Last Line: On city breezes borne.
Subject(s): London; Plane Trees; Sycamores


GREEN is the plane-tree in the square,
The other trees are brown ;
They droop and pine for country air ;
The plane-tree loves the town.

Here from my garret-pane, I mark
The plane-tree bud and blow,
Shed her recuperative bark,
And spread her shade below.

Among her branches, in and out,
The city breezes play ;
The dun fog wraps her round about ;
Above, the smoke curls grey.

Others the country take for choice,
And hold the town in scorn ;
But she has listened to the voice
On city breezes borne.









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