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").

Dreams

I gave my life to another lover,I gave my love, and all, and all--But over a dream the past will hover,Out of a dream the past will call.I tear..

© Sara Teasdale

Wisdom

When I have ceased to break my wingsAgainst the faultiness of things,And learned that compromises waitBehind each hardly opened gate,When I have..

© Sara Teasdale

The Old Maid

I saw her in a Broadway car,The woman I might grow to be;I felt my lover look at herAnd then turn suddenly to me.Her hair was dull and drew no..

© Sara Teasdale

February Twilight

I stood beside a hillSmooth with new-laid snow,A single star looked outFrom the cold evening glow.There was no other creatureThat saw what I could..

© Sara Teasdale

At Night

We are apart; the city grows quiet between us,She hushes herself, for midnight makes heavy her eyes,The tangle of traffic is ended, the cars are..

© Sara Teasdale

Blue Squills

How many million Aprils came Before I ever knewHow white a cherry bough could be, A bed of squills, how blue.And many a dancing April When life..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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?..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale

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..

© Sara Teasdale