A London Plane‐Tree and other Verse
byAmy Levy
Cameo Series
T. Fisher Unwin
Paternoster Sq.
London, E.C.
MDCCCLXXXIX
To Clementina Black.
- More blest than was of old Diogenes,
- I have not held my lantern up in vain.
- Not mine, at least, this evil—to complain :
- “There is none honest among all of these.”
- Our hopes go down that sailed before the breeze ;
- Our creeds upon the rock are rent in twain ;
- Something it is, if at the last remain
- One floating spar cast up by hungry seas.
- The secret of our being, who can tell ?
- To praise the gods and Fate is not my part ;
- Evil I see, and pain ; within my heart
- There is no voice that whispers : “All is well.”
- Yet fair are days in summer ; and more fair
- The growths of human goodness here and there.
A London Plane‐Tree.
- A London Plane‐Tree 17
- London in July 18
- A March Day in London 19
- Ballade of an Omnibus 21
- Ballade of a Special Edition 23
- Roundels 25‐27
- The Piano‐Organ 28
- London Poets 29
- The Village Garden 30
Love, Dreams, and Death.
- New Love, New Life 35
- Impotens 36
- Youth and Love 37
- The Dream 38
- On the Threshold 39
- The Birch‐Tree at Loschwitz 40
- In the Night 41
- Borderland 42
- page: 10
- At Dawn 43
- Last Words 44
- June 46
- A Reminiscence 47
- The Sequel to “A Reminiscence” 48
- In the Mile End Road 50
- Contradictions 51
- Twilight 52
- In September 53
Moods and Thoughts.
- The Old House 57
- Lohengrin 58
- Alma Mater 59
- In the Black Forest 61
- Captivity 62
- The Two Terrors 64
- The Promise of Sleep 65
- The Last Judgment 66
- Felo de Se 68
- The Lost Friend 71
- Cambridge in the Long 72
- To Vernon Lee 74
- The Old Poet 75
- On the Wye in May 77
- Oh, is it Love? 78
- In the Nower 79
- The End of the Day 80
Odds and Ends.
- Songs from The New Phaon (unpublished)—
- Philosophy 88
- A Game of Lawn Tennis 90
- To E. 91