Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Love In Autumn

I sought among the drifting leaves,The golden leaves that once were green,To see if Love were hiding thereAnd peeping out between.For thro' the..

© Sara Teasdale

I Remembered

There never was a mood of mine,Gay or heart-broken, luminous or dull,But you could ease me of its feverAnd give it back to me more beutiful.In many..

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At Midnight

Now at last I have come to see what life is,Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun,And the brave victories that seem so splendidAre never..

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Hidden Love

I hid the love within my heart,And lit the laughter in my eyes,That when we meet he may not knowMy love that never dies.But sometimes when he dreams..

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Deep In The Night

Deep in the night the cry of a swallow,Under the stars he flew,Keen as pain was his call to followOver the world to you.Love in my heart is a cry..

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Let It Be Forgotten

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..

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Anadyomene

The wide, bright temple of the world I found,And entered from the dizzy infiniteThat I might kneel and worship thee in it;Leaving the singing stars..

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I Would Live In Your Love

I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;I would empty..

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Spring In War Time

I feel the Spring far off, far off,The faint far scent of bud and leaf--Oh how can Spring take heart to comeTo a world in grief,Deep grief?The sun..

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I Love You

When April bends above meAnd finds me fast asleepDust need not keep the secretA live heart died to keep.When April tells the thrushes,The..

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Come

Come, when the pale moon like a petalFloats in the pearly dusk of spring,Come with outstretched arms to take me,Come with lips pursed up to..

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The Flight

Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow,Let our flight be far in sun or windy..

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Buried Love

I shall bury my weary LoveBeneath a tree,In the forest tall and blackWhere none can see.I shall put no flowers at his head,Nor stone at his feet,For..

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Young Love

II cannot heed the words they say,The lights grow far away and dim,Amid the laughing men and maidsMy eyes unbidden seek for him.I hope that when he..

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A November Night

There! See the line of lights,A chain of stars down either side the street --Why can't you lift the chain and give it to me,A necklace for my throat?..

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Oh Day Of Fire And Sun

Oh day of fire and sun,Pure as a naked flame,Blue sea, blue sky and dunSands where he spoke my name;Laughter and hearts so highThat the spirit flew..

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But Not To Me

The April night is still and sweetWith flowers on every tree;Peace comes to them on quiet feet,But not to me.My peace is hidden in his breastWhere I..

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Peace

Peace flows into meAs the tide to the pool by the shore;It is mine forevermore,It ebbs not back like the sea.I am the pool of blueThat worships the..

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Joy

I am wild, I will sing to the trees,I will sing to the stars in the sky,I love, I am loved, he is mine,Now at last I can die!I am sandaled with wind..

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A Little While

A little while when I am goneMy life will live in music after me,As spun foam lifted and borne onAfter the wave is lost in the full sea.A while these..

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By The Sea

Beside an ebbing northern seaWhile stars awaken one by one,We walk together, I and he.He woos me with an easy graceThat proves him only half..

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It Will Not Change

It will not change nowAfter so many years;Life has not broken itWith parting or tears;Death will not alter it,It will live onIn all my songs for..

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The Look

Strephon kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,Robin's lost..

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Beatrice

Send out the singers -- let the room be still;They have not eased my pain nor brought me sleep.Close out the sun, for I would have it darkThat I may..

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The Dreams Of My Heart"

The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,Nothing stays with me long,But I have had from a childThe deep solace of song;If that should ever leave..

© Sara Teasdale