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Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay


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.



Edna St. Vincent Millay


Edna St. Vincent Millay's other poems:
  1. Grown-up
  2. My Most Distinguished Guest And Learned Friend
  3. Assault
  4. Sweet Love, Sweet Thorn, When Lightly To My Heart
  5. Night Is My Sister, And How Deep In Love


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