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Advice to a Girl http://books.google.com/books?id=Hl5bAAAAMAAJ&q=%22No+one+worth+possessing+Can+be+quite+possessed%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage, Strange Victory (1933)

“I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes.”

Sara Teasdale

"I Would Live in Your Love"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Love , Grass , Sea

“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. 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

"I Shall Not Care
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

Peace , Tree , Heart , Dead

“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?”

Sara Teasdale

"June Night"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

Love

“Perhaps when all the world is bare
And cruel winter holds the land,
The Love that finds no place to hide
Will run and catch my hand. I shall not care to have him then,
I shall be bitter and a-cold —
It grows too late for frolicking
When all the world is old.Then little hiding Love, come forth,
Come forth before the autumn goes,
And let us seek thro' ruined paths
The garden's last red rose.”

Sara Teasdale

"Love in Autumn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Love , World , Autumn , Winter

“But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.”

Sara Teasdale

"Understanding"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

Secret , Age , Water

“I hope that when he smiles at me
He does not guess my joy and pain,
For if he did, he is too kind
To ever look my way again.”

Sara Teasdale

"Young Love"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Pain , Smile , Hope , Way

“Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing
From the immense blue circle of the sea,
And the soft thunder where long waves whiten —
These were the same for Sappho as for me. Two thousand years — much has gone by forever,
Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men —
But here on the beaches that time passes over
The heart aches now as then.”

Sara Teasdale

"The Unchanging"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

Men , God , Light , Change

“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

"The Lamp"
Love Songs (1917)

Love , God , Sleep

“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.”

Sara Teasdale

"Barter"
Love Songs (1917)

Peace , Singing

“I should be glad of loneliness
And hours that go on broken wings,
A thirsty body, a tired heart
And the unchanging ache of things,
If I could make a single song
As lovely and as full of light,
As hushed and brief as a falling star
On a winter night.”

Sara Teasdale

"Compensation"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

Love , Star , Light , Winter

“But I will turn my eyes from you
As women turn to put away
The jewels they have worn at night
And cannot wear in sober day.”

Sara Teasdale

"Jewels"
Love Songs (1917)

Women , Night

“For tho' I know he loves me,
To-night my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.”

Sara Teasdale The Kiss

"The Kiss"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Love , Sadness , Dreams , Kiss

“All this grows bitter that was once so sweet,
And many mouths must drain the dregs of it.
But none will pity me, nor pity him
Whom Love so lashed, and with such cruel thongs.”

Sara Teasdale

"Guenevere"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Love

“I am alone, as though I stood
On the highest peak of the tired gray world,
About me only swirling snow,
Above me, endless space unfurled; With earth hidden and heaven hidden,
And only my own spirit's pride
To keep me from the peace of those
Who are not lonely, having died.”

Sara Teasdale

"Alone"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

World , Peace

“The greenish sky glows up in misty reds,
The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,
The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds,
And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.”

Sara Teasdale

"City Vignettes, I: Dawn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Men , Dreams

“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?”

Sara Teasdale

"Old Tunes"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

Youth , Light

“And as I played, a child came thro' the gate,
A boy who looked at me without a word,
As tho' he saw stretch far behind my head
Long lines of radiant angels, row on row.
That day we spoke a little, timidly,
And after that I never heard the voice
That sang so many songs for love of me.”

Sara Teasdale

"Beatrice"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Love , Angels , Boy

“O lovely chance, what can I do
To give my gratefulness to you?
You rise between myself and me
With a wise persistency;
I would have broken body and soul,
But by your grace, still I am whole.”

Sara Teasdale

"Lovely Chance"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

Love , Soul , Chance

“I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies,—
You are my deepening skies,
Give me your stars to hold.”

Sara Teasdale

"Peace"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

Star

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