In the Mile End Road
Title
In the Mile End Road
Description
Amy Levy poem imagining a dead beloved walking through Victorian London's Jewish quarter.
Creator
Amy Levy
Source
A London Plane-tree: and Other Verse
Publisher
London: T. Fisher Unwin
Date
1899
Language
English
Text
How like her! But 'tis she herself,
Comes up the crowded street,
How little did I think, the morn,
My only love to meet!
Whose else that motion and that mien?
Whose else that airy tread?
For one strange moment I forgot
My only love was dead.
Comes up the crowded street,
How little did I think, the morn,
My only love to meet!
Whose else that motion and that mien?
Whose else that airy tread?
For one strange moment I forgot
My only love was dead.
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Citation
Amy Levy, “In the Mile End Road,” Victorian Queer Archive, accessed May 4, 2024, https://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/items/show/42.