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 More Quotes by Sara Teasdale More Quotes From Sara Teasdale My heart is a garden tired with autumn. Sara Teasdale autumn tired heart The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves? Sara Teasdale grief blow heart 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. Sara Teasdale knowing darkness sleep 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 wine grief flower 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 Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night Sara Teasdale stars heart night The roofs are shining from the rain, Sara Teasdale rain clouds spring But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Sara Teasdale strong song love 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 flower hurt spring There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea. Sara Teasdale cheer sea morning Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me Sara Teasdale theft hours I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me. Sara Teasdale april spring I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now. Sara Teasdale suicidal suicide rain It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes;The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks. Sara Teasdale hurt heart running 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 broken-heart sad dream There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done. Sara Teasdale done real half 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 Sara Teasdale suicidal suicide rain Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day. Sara Teasdale eye spring fall But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall. Sara Teasdale wall littles heaven 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. Sara Teasdale gay flower lying
