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Sara Teasdale
(1884-1933)
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"Did You Never Know?"
Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me --
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"I Am Not Yours"
I am not yours, not lost in you,
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"I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
I have loved hours at sea, gray cities,
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"I Thought of You"
I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
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"It Is Not a Word"
It is not a word spoken,
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"It Will Not Change"
It will not change now
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"Like Barley Bending"
Like barley bending
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"My Heart Is Heavy"
My heart is heavy with many a song
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"Oh Day of Fire and Sun"
Oh day of fire and sun,
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"Oh You Are Coming"
Oh you are coming, coming, coming,
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"Only in Sleep"
Only in sleep I see their faces,
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"The Dreams of My Heart"
The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,
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"The Old Maid"
I saw her in a Broadway car,
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"What Do I Care?"
What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
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A Cry
Oh, there are eyes that he can see,
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A November Night
There! See the line of lights,
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A Prayer
Until I lose my soul and lie
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A Prayer
When I am dying, let me know
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A Winter Night
My window-pane is starred with frost,
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After Love
There is no magic any more,
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After Parting
Oh, I have sown my love so wide
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Alchemy
I lift my heart as spring lifts up
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Alone
I am alone, in spite of love,
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April
The roofs are shining from the rain,
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April Song
Willow, in your April gown
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Arcturus
Arcturus brings the spring back
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At Midnight
Now at last I have come to see what life is,
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At Night
Love said, "Wake still and think of me,"
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At Sea
In the pull of the wind I stand, lonely,
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August Moonrise
The sun was gone, and the moon was coming
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Barter
Life has loveliness to sell,
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Because
Oh, because you never tried
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Buried Love
I have come to bury Love
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But Not To Me
The April night is still and sweet
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Change
Remember me as I was then;
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Child, Child
Child, child, love while you can
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Come
Come, when the pale moon like a petal
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Compensation
I should be glad of loneliness
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Debt
What do I owe to you
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Debtor
So long as my spirit still
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Dew
As dew leaves the cobweb lightly
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Dew
I dream that he is mine,
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Doubt
My soul lives in my body's house,
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Driftwood
My forefathers gave me
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Dusk in War Time
A half-hour more and you will lean
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Dust
When I went to look at what had long been hidden,
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Ebb Tide
When the long day goes by
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Embers
I said, "My youth is gone
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Enough
It is enough for me by day
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Epitaph
Serene descent, as a red leaf's descending
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Evening: New York
Blue dust of evening over my city,
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Faces
People that I meet and pass
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Faults
They came to tell your faults to me,
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Four Winds
"Four winds blowing through the sky,
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Gifts
I gave my first love laughter,
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Gray Eyes
It was April when you came
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Guenevere
I was a queen, and I have lost my crown;
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Houses of Dreams
You took my empty dreams
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I Remembered
There never was a mood of mine,
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I Shall Not Care
When I am dead and over me bright April
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I Would Live in Your Love
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
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If Death Is Kind
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
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In a Garden
The world is resting without sound or motion,
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In the End
All that could never be said,
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Interlude: Songs out of Sorrow
From naked stones of agony
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Jewls
If I should see your eyes again,
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Joy
I am wild, I will sing to the trees,
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June Night
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
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Let it be Forgotten
Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
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Lights
When we come home at night and close the door,
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Longing
I am not sorry for my soul
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Love and Death
Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep,
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Love Me
Brown-thrush singing all day long
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May Day
A delicate fabric of bird song
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May Night
The spring is fresh and fearless
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May Wind
I said, "I have shut my heart
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Meadowlarks
In the silver light after a storm,
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Message
I heard a cry in the night,
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Moods
I am the still rain falling,
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Moonlight
It will not hurt me when I am old,
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Morning
I went out on an April morning
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Morning Song
A diamond of a morning
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New Love and Old
In my heart the old love
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Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
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November
The world is tired, the year is old,
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Old Tunes
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
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On the Dunes
If there is any life when death is over,
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Open Windows
Out of the window a sea of green trees
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Other Men
When I talk with other men
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Pain
Waves are the sea's white daughters,
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Peace
Peace flows into me
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Pierrot
Pierrot stands in the garden
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Pity
They never saw my lover's face,
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Places
Places I love come back to me like music,
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Red Maples
In the last year I have learned
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Redbirds
Redbirds, redbirds,
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Riches
I have no riches but my thoughts,
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September Midnights
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer,
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Sleepless
If I could have your arms tonight-
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Snowfall
"She can't be unhappy," you said,
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Song at Capri
When beauty grows too great to bear
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Song Making
My heart cried like a beaten child
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Spray
I knew you thought of me all night,
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Spring Night
The park is filled with night and fog,
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Spring Rain
I thought I had forgotten,
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Spring Torrents
Will it always be like this until I am dead,
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Stars
Alone in the night
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Summer Night, Riverside
In the wild, soft summer darkness
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Summer Storm
The panther wind
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Sunset: St. Louis
Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset,
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Swans
Night is over the park, and a few brave stars
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The Answer
When I go back to earth
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The Coin
Into my heart's treasury
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The Crystal Gazer
I shall gather myself into my self again,
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The Flight
Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,
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The Flight
All through the deep blue night
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The Garden
My heart is a garden tired with autumn,
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The Ghost
I went back to the clanging city,
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The Giver
You bound strong sandals on my feet,
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The Kiss
I hoped that he would love me,
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The Lamp
If I can bear your love like a lamp before me,
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The Long Hill
I must have passed the crest a while ago
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The Look
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
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The Mystery
Your eyes drink of me,
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The Net
I made you many and many a song,
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The New Moon
Day, you have bruised and beaten me,
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The Return
He has come, he is here,
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The River
I came from the sunny valleys
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The Sanctuary
If I could keep my innermost Me
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The Silent Battle
He was a soldier in that fight
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The Song For Colin
I sang a song at dusking time
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The Storm
I thought of you when I was wakened
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The Treasure
When they see my songs
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The Tree
Oh to be free of myself,
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The Tree of Song
I sang my songs for the rest,
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The Unchanging
Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing
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The Voice
Atoms as old as stars,
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The Wanderer
I saw the sunset-colored sands,
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The Wind
A wind is blowing over my soul,
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The Wind in the Hemlock
Steely stars and moon of brass,
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The Years
To-night I close my eyes and see
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There Will Come Soft Rains
There will come soft rains and the
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Thoughts
When I am all alone
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Tides
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
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To E.
I have remembered beauty in the night,
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To-nigh
The moon is a curving flower of gold,
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Twilight
Dreamily over the roofs
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Understanding
I understood the rest too well,
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Water Lilies
If you have forgotten water lilies floating
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White Fog
Heaven-invading hills are drowned
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Wild Asters
In the spring I asked the daisies
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