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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Sara Teasdale

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Sara Teasdale
Age: 48 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 8
Died: 1933
Died: January 29
Poet
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Sara Teasdale Filsinger
Sara Trevor Teasdale
Eye
Calm
Given
Honesty
Truth
Youth
Look
Wise
Looks
Wisdom
Life
Eyes
Coldly
Taken
Exchange
Age
Grown

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Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?
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I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.
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Spend all you have for loveliness.
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O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistencyI would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.
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But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadows I catch my breath and sing - My heart is fresh and fearless And over-brimmed with spring.
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A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love The world is waiting for the spring.
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Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
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Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
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Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
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Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
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The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
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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.
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I am not yours, nor 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.
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And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.
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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.
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