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Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

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
Faithless
Shall
True
Love

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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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Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
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My heart is a garden tired with autumn.
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It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
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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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My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.
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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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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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A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?
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Love said, Wake still and think of me, Sleep, Close your eyes till break of day, But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.
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The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
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Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?
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One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.
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Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night
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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.
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
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