At Loschwitz above the city
The air is sunny and chill;
The birch-trees and the pine-trees
Grow thick upon the hill.
Lone and tall, with silver stem,
A birch-tree stands apart;
The passionate wind of spring-time
Stirs in its leafy heart.
I lean against the birch-tree,
My arms around it twine;
It pulses, and leaps, and quivers,
Like a human heart to mine.
One moment I stand, then sudden
Let loose mine arms that cling:
O God! the lonely hillside,
The passionate wind of spring!
The Birch-tree At Loschwitz
Amy Levy
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Poem topics: city, god, lonely, silver, time, sunny, human, moment, stand, heart, spring, tree, wind, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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