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TITLE: LOVE SONGS
AUTHOR: SARA TEASDALE
EBOOK: E02979 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

Love Songs
By Sara Teasdale 
 [American (Missouri & New York) poet, 1884-1933.]

[This etext was transcribed from a 1918 reprinting of the 1917 edition,
which was the original.  It is interesting that some of those poems
included from earlier volumes have been slightly changed in this book.]

Love Songs

By Sara Teasdale
Author of "Rivers to the Sea", "Helen of Troy and Other Poems", Etc.

To E.

     I have remembered beauty in the night,
      Against black silences I waked to see
      A shower of sunlight over Italy
     And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
     I have remembered music in the dark,
      The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
      And running water singing on the rocks
     When once in English woods I heard a lark.

     But all remembered beauty is no more
      Than a vague prelude to the thought of you --
      You are the rarest soul I ever knew,
         Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;
     My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,
         And when I think of you, I am at rest.

Prefatory Note

Beside new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from "Rivers to the Sea",
"Helen of Troy and Other Poems", and one or two from an earlier volume.

Contents

  I

Barter
Twilight
Night Song at Amalfi
The Look
A Winter Night
A Cry
Gifts
But Not to Me
Song at Capri
Child, Child
Love Me
Pierrot
Wild Asters
The Song for Colin
Four Winds
Debt
Faults
Buried Love
The Fountain
I Shall Not Care
After Parting
A Prayer
Spring Night
May Wind
Tides
After Love
New Love and Old
The Kiss
Swans
The River
November
Spring Rain
The Ghost
Summer Night, Riverside
Jewels

  II

Interlude:  Songs out of Sorrow

I.  Spirit's House
II.  Mastery
III.  Lessons
IV.  Wisdom
V.  In a Burying Ground
VI.  Wood Song
VII.  Refuge

  III

The Flight
Dew
To-night
Ebb Tide
I Would Live in Your Love
Because
The Tree of Song
The Giver
April Song
The Wanderer
The Years
Enough
Come
Joy
Riches
Dusk in War Time
Peace
Moods
Houses of Dreams
Lights
"I Am Not Yours"
Doubt
The Wind
Morning
Other Men
Embers
Message
The Lamp

  IV

A November Night

Love Songs

  I

Barter

Life has loveliness to sell,
 All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
 Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.

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.

Spend all you have for loveliness,
 Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
 Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.

Twilight

Dreamily over the roofs
 The cold spring rain is falling;
Out in the lonely tree
 A bird is calling, calling.

Slowly over the earth
 The wings of night are falling;
My heart like the bird in the tree
 Is calling, calling, calling.

Night Song at Amalfi

I asked the heaven of stars
 What I should give my love --
It answered me with silence,
 Silence above.

I asked the darkened sea
 Down where the fishers go --
It answered me with silence,
 Silence below.

Oh, I could give him weeping,
 Or I could give him song --
But how can I give silence,
 My whole life long?

The Look

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
 Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
 And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
 Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
 Haunts me night and day.

A Winter Night

My window-pane is starred with frost,
 The world is bitter cold to-night,
The moon is cruel, and the wind
 Is like a two-edged sword to smite.

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