Second April

City Trees

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City Trees

The trees along this city street,

Save for the traffic and the trains,

Would make a sound as thin and sweet

As trees in country lanes.

And people standing in their shade

Out of a shower, undoubtedly

Would hear such music as is made

Upon a country tree.

Oh, little leaves that are so dumb

Against the shrieking city air,

I watch you when the wind has come,--

I know what sound is there.

About Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Summary

Spring

City Trees

The Blue-Flag In The Bog

Journey

Eel-Grass

Elegy Before Death

The Bean-Stalk

Weeds

Passer Mortuus Est

Pastoral

Assault

Travel

Low Tide

Song Of A Second April

Rosemary

The Poet And His Book

Alms

Inland

To A Poet That Died Young

Wraith

Ebb

Elaine

Burial

Mariposa

The Little Hill

Doubt No More That Oberon

Lament

Exiled

The Death Of Autumn

Ode To Silence

Memorial To D. C.

Epitaph

Prayer To Persephone

Chorus

Elegy

Dirge

Sonnets

Wild Swans

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