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The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary
If I could keep my innermost Me
Fearless, aloof and free
Of the least breath of love or hate,
And not disconsolate
At the sick load of sorrow laid on men;
If I could keep a sanctuary there
Free even of prayer,
If I could do this, then,
With quiet candor as I grew more wise
I could look even at God with grave forgiving eyes.

Dust

Dust
When I went to look at what had long been hidden,
A jewel laid long ago in a secret place,
I trembled, for I thought to see its dark deep fire --
But only a pinch of dust blew up in my face.
I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes --
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.

Lights

Lights
When we come home at night and close the door,
Standing together in the shadowy room,
Safe in our own love and the gentle gloom,
Glad of familiar wall and chair and floor,
Glad to leave far below the clanging city;
Looking far downward to the glaring street
Gaudy with light, yet tired with many feet,
In both of us wells up a wordless pity;
Men have tried hard to put away the dark;
A million lighted windows brilliantly
Inlay with squares of gold the winter night,
But to us standing here there comes the stark
Sense of the lives behind each yellow light,
And not one wholly joyous, proud, or free.

The Garden

The Garden
My heart is a garden tired with autumn,
Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark,
In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April,
The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark;
Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning,
And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain --
The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten --
After the stillness, will spring come again?

In the End

In the End
All that could never be said,
All that could never be done,
Wait for us at last
Somewhere back of the sun;
All the heart broke to forego
Shall be ours without pain,
We shall take them as lightly as girls
Pluck flowers after rain.
And when they are ours in the end
Perhaps after all
The skies will not open for us
Nor heaven be there at our call.

I Shall Not Care

I Shall Not Care
When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Though you should lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.
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.

Embers

Embers
I said, "My youth is gone
Like a fire beaten out by the rain,
That will never sway and sing
Or play with the wind again."
I said, "It is no great sorrow
That quenched my youth in me,
But only little sorrows
Beating ceaselessly."
I thought my youth was gone,
But you returned --
Like a flame at the call of the wind
It leaped and burned;
Threw off its ashen cloak,
And gowned anew
Gave itself like a bride
Once more to you.

Song Making

Song Making
My heart cried like a beaten child
Ceaselessly all night long;
I had to take my own cries
And thread them into a song.
One was a cry at black midnight
And one when the first cock crew --
My heart was like a beaten child,
But no one ever knew.
Life, you have put me in your debt
And I must serve you long --
But oh, the debt is terrible
That must be paid in song.

What Do I Care?

"What Do I Care?"
What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
That my songs do not show me at all?
For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire,
I am an answer, they are only a call.
But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,
Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,
For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,
It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

Houses of Dreams

Houses of Dreams
You took my empty dreams
And filled them every one
With tenderness and nobleness,
April and the sun.
The old empty dreams
Where my thoughts would throng
Are far too full of happiness
To even hold a song.
Oh, the empty dreams were dim
And the empty dreams were wide,
They were sweet and shadowy houses
Where my thoughts could hide.
But you took my dreams away
And you made them all come true --
My thoughts have no place now to play,
And nothing now to do.
Spoken poem: “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale
Poetry Out Loud 2012 NJ State Finals: Sarah Finnan performs "Barter"
Stars - Esenvalds (World Premiere Performance) - Salt Lake Vocal Artists
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Barter by Sara Teasdale
Child, child (Sara Teasdale) | Atmospheric Choral Music | composed by Michał Ziółkowski
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Love and Death | A Poem by Sara Teasdale
Faces. Poem by Sara Teasdale
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Five Poems of Sara Teasdale Official Music Video (Live Recording) Karin Dahlberg Soprano
🔵 The Kiss Poem by Sara Teasdale - Summary Analysis Reading - The Kiss by Sara Teasdale
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After Love - Sara Teasdale | Eternal Poems
Since There Is No Escape - Sarah Teasdale
Sara Teasdale -- There Will Come Soft Rain Analysis
Barter Poem By Sara Teasdale
SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE by Sara Teasdale (narrated by Simon Howard)
The Kiss a Poem By Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale - I Am Not Yours (audio with text)
'There Will Come Soft Rains' - a poem by Sara Teasdale
🔵 Because Poem by Sarah Teasdale - Summary Analysis - Because by Sarah Teasdale
Anadyomene by Sara Teasdale
The Kiss by Sara Teasdale
Alchemy by Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale - Enough (audio with text)
There Will Come Soft Rains (1918 Sara Teasdale + Ray Bradbury)
To An Aeolian Harp by Sara Teasdale
Tides written by Sara Teasdale
🔵 Sara Teasdale - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale - Analysis Reading Explanation - I Am Not Yours
“Stars I Shall Find,” music by Audrey Snyder, poem by Sara Teasdale
To A Picture Of Eleanor Duse by Sara Teasdale
I Am Not Yours: David N. Childs and Sara Teasdale - The University of Texas Women's Chorus
The Haunting Look: Three Kisses, One Lingering Gaze | A Romantic Poetry #shorts
"Christmas Carol" by Sara Teasdale, recited by The Wordman
"It Will Not Change" by Sara Teasdale, recited by The Wordman
Spring in War-Time - a poem by Sara Teasdale (Life Changing Words)
The Star by Sara Teasdale
There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale
Dreams By Sara Teasdale , 1918 Pulitzer Prize Winner. BEAUTIFUL POETRY #poem #poetry #Shorts
Like Barley Bending by Sara Teasdale
"After Love" by Sara Teasdale, recited by The Wordman
Stars by Sara Teasdale
Let it be Forgotten by Sara Teasdale
Dusk in June- Four Lyrics of Sara Teasdale, by Phyllis Zimmerman
Life has loveliness to sell, Four Lyrics of Sara Teasdale, by Phyllis Zimmerman
Winter Stars - a poem by Sara Teasdale (Life Changing Words)
Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale
Night In Arizona by Sara Teasdale

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