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• The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.

  Sara Teasdale

  Tired, Autumn, Years

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.

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  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
  Float in the garden when no wind blows,
  Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
  So the old tunes float in my mind,
  And go from me leaving no trace behind,
  Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

  Sara Teasdale

  Music, Blow, Garden

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.

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  Rain, Heart, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.135, Рипол Классик

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• I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Stars, Loneliness

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.

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  Sleep, Knowing, Darkness

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

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• Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Rain, Love You

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• The roofs are shining from the rain,
  The sparrows twitter as they fly,
  And with a windy April grace
  The little clouds go by.
  Yet the back yards are bare and brown
  With only one unchanging tree-
  I could not be so sure of Spring
  Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Rain, Clouds

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,
  Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,
  For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,
  It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

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  Love, Song, Strong

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.5, Рипол Классик

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• Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

  Sara Teasdale

  Hours, Theft

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.11, Рипол Классик

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• I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.

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  Spring, April

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now

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  Suicide, Rain, Suicidal

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.

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  Sunset, Heart, Moon

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

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• Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of the stars.

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  Dream, Stars, War

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.95, Рипол Классик

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• The wind is tossing the lilacs,
  The new leaves laugh in the sun,
  And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
  But for me the spring is done.
  Beneath the apple blossoms
  I go a wintry way,
  For love that smiled in April
  Is false to me in May.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wall, Spring, Fall

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love, Song, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.5, Рипол Классик

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• Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

  Sara Teasdale

  Night, Men, Scent

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

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• Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

  Sara Teasdale

  Old Love, Being True, Faithless

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer.

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  Summer, Tired, Moon

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• My heart is a garden tired with autumn,
  Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark,
  In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April,
  The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark;
  Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning,
  And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain -
  The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten -
  After the stillness, will spring come again?

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Spring, Rain

  Sara Teasdale, “The Garden”

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• With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

  Sara Teasdale

  Music, House, Shining

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

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• Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

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  Daughter, Song, Pain

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.

  Sara Teasdale

  Hands, House, Shining

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Dream, Men, Sky

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

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  Lying, Flower, Gay

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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