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

Amy Levy1861–1889

In the Mile End Road

HOW like her! But ’tis she herself,

Comes up the crowded street,

How little did I think, the morn,

My only love to meet!

Who else that motion and that mien?

Whose else that airy tread?

For one strange moment I forgot

My only love was dead.