153. London. F. S. Flint. Modern British Poetry

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

F. S. Flint.

153. London

LONDON, my beautiful,
it is not the sunset
nor the pale green sky
shimmering through the curtain
of the silver birch,	5
nor the quietness;
it is not the hopping
of birds
upon the lawn,
nor the darkness	10
stealing over all things
that moves me.

But as the moon creeps slowly
over the tree-tops
among the stars,	15
I think of her
and the glow her passing
sheds on men.

London, my beautiful,
I will climb	20
into the branches
to the moonlit tree-tops,
that my blood may be cooled
by the wind.