Sara Teasdale poems
Sara Teasdale(8 August 1884 - 29 January 1933 / Missouri)
I Am Not Yours
- by Sara Teasdale 318
I am not yours, not lost in you,Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.
Did You Never Know?
- by Sara Teasdale 226
Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me --That your love would never lessen and never go?
You were young then, proud and fresh-hearted,
You were too young to know.
Fate is a wind, and red leaves fly before it
Far apart, far away in the gusty time of year --
Seldom we meet now, but when I hear you speaking,
I know your secret, my dear, my dear.