Nature

Poetic Justice

by Amy Lowell 1874–1925

From Ballads for Sale (1927)

Nature

Double-flowering trees bear no fruit, they say,
And I have many blossoms,

With petals shrewdly whirled about an empty centre,
White as paper, falling at a whiff of wind.

But when they are gone

There are only green leaves to catch at the sunlight,
Green monotonous leaves

Which hide nothing.

MLA

Lowell, Amy. “Poetic Justice.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/478/.

Chicago

Lowell, Amy. “Poetic Justice.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/478/.

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