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Dew

Dew
As dew leaves the cobweb lightly
Threaded with stars,
Scattering jewels on the fence
And the pasture bars;
As dawn leaves the dry grass bright
And the tangled weeds
Bearing a rainbow gem
On each of their seeds;
So has your love, my lover,
Fresh as the dawn,
Made me a shining road
To travel on,
Set every common sight
Of tree or stone
Delicately alight
For me alone.

Open Windows

Open Windows
Out of the window a sea of green trees
Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer,
They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!"
But I cannot answer.
I am alone with Weakness and Pain,
Sick abed and June is going,
I cannot keep her, she hurries by
With the silver-green of her garments blowing.
Men and women pass in the street
Glad of the shining sapphire weather,
But we know more of it than they,
Pain and I together.
They are the runners in the sun,
Breathless and blinded by the race,
But we are watchers in the shade
Who speak with Wonder face to face.

Change

Change
Remember me as I was then;
Turn from me now, but always see
The laughing shadowy girl who stood
At midnight by the flowering tree,
With eyes that love had made as bright
As the trembling stars of the summer night.
Turn from me now, but always hear
The muted laughter in the dew
Of that one year of youth we had,
The only youth we ever knew --
Turn from me now, or you will see
What other years have done to me.

The Tree of Song

The Tree of Song
I sang my songs for the rest,
For you I am still;
The tree of my song is bare
On its shining hill.
For you came like a lordly wind,
And the leaves were whirled
Far as forgotten things
Past the rim of the world.
The tree of my song stands bare
Against the blue --
I gave my songs to the rest,
Myself to you.

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?

June Night

June Night
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy fragrance and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?
Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,
I love you, I love you, -- oh what have I
That I can give you in return --
Except my body after I die?

Gray Eyes

Gray Eyes
It was April when you came
The first time to me,
And my first look in your eyes
Was like my first look at the sea.
We have been together
Four Aprils now
Watching for the green
On the swaying willow bough;
Yet whenever I turn
To your gray eyes over me,
It is as though I looked
For the first time at the sea.

Love and Death

Love and Death
Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep,
And shall my soul that lies within your hand
Remember nothing, as the blowing sand
Forgets the palm where long blue shadows creep
When winds along the darkened desert sweep?
Or would it still remember, tho' it spanned
A thousand heavens, while the planets fanned
The vacant ether with their voices deep?
Soul of my soul, no word shall be forgot,
Nor yet alone, beloved, shall we see
The desolation of extinguished suns,
Nor fear the void wherethro' our planet runs,
For still together shall we go and not
Fare forth alone to front eternity.

Old Tunes

Old Tunes
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,
Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
So the old tunes float in my mind,
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
But in the instant the airs remain
I know the laughter and the pain
Of times that will not come again.
I try to catch at many a tune
Like petals of light fallen from the moon,
Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,
But they float away -- for who can hold
Youth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

Moonlight

Moonlight
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.
The heart asks more than life can give,
When that is learned, then all is learned;
The waves break fold on jewelled fold,
But beauty itself is fugitive,
It will not hurt me when I am old.
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
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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
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After Love - Sara Teasdale | Eternal Poems
Since There Is No Escape - Sarah Teasdale
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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
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“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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