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• My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Emotional, Irritation

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Can I ever know you / Or you know me?

  Sara Teasdale

  Know Me, Knows

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Faith, Tree, Forsaken

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Spend all you have for loveliness.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Loveliness

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Years, Flying

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

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• Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love, Thinking, Sorrow

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,-- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love You, Done, Faults

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.

  Sara Teasdale

  Arms, Empty, Ache

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

  Sara Teasdale

  Kings, Memories, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”

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• If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back to oak trees in the spring When you unloosed my hair and kissed The head that lay against your knees In the leaf shadow's amethyst. And still another shining place We would remember -- how the dun Wild mountain held us on its crest One diamond morning white with sun. But I will turn my eyes from you As women turn to put away The jewels they have worn at night And cannot wear in sober day.

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The leaves fall patiently
  Nothing remembers or grieves
  The river takes to the sea
  The yellow drift of leaves.

  Sara Teasdale

  Fall, Autumn, Grieving

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wise, Steps, Action

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• Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

  Sara Teasdale

  Love You, Giving, Body

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.102, Рипол Классик

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• I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Sunset, Sky

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Love Is, Cry

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

  Sara Teasdale

  Time, Flower, Fire

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.61, Рипол Классик

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• Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
  We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
  And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
  Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.
  We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
  And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
  Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
  We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

  Sara Teasdale

  Death, Beach, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• SONG You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off my feet, You know not what you do, For all my world is in your arms, My sun and stars are you.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Strong, Stars

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.

  Sara Teasdale

  Tired, Come Back To Me, Hush

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

  Sara Teasdale

  Grief, Flower, Wine

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

  Sara Teasdale

  Sad, Broken Heart, Dream

  Sara Teasdale, “The Kiss”

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• How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.

  Sara Teasdale

  Hurt, Spring, Flower

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.1, Рипол Классик

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• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

  Sara Teasdale

  Moon, Clouds, Light

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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