Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

J. d'AUBRAY BELL . SPRING IN MONTPARNASSE . HROUGH the more limpid air the live trams clash And pitch , with more impetuous speed imbued : Black trees that all the winter seemed to brood Thought - swathed start up with sudden emerald flash And stretchings out of myriad crumpled hands : Huge ship - like corner - houses that till now Lay listless and becalmed shake from their prow Pennons that thrill towards unknown spring - lands : The cafés spread their awning - leaves above An early crop of pert habitués ; The teeming boulevard Alickers and sways With snap of life grown tenser ; half - beasts rove About the sky : even your coldness thaws To eagerness beneath the hot sun 's laws . 20