Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdalewas an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 August 1884
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
lovely looks lovely-things
look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far
love love-is given
Take love when love is given.
love thinking sorrow
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
real love-is made
Only by love is life made real.
beauty love-is cry
O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.
love song strong
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.
old-love being-true faithless
Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?
beauty loveliness
Spend all you have for loveliness.
stars rain love-you
Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.
love-you done faults
Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,-- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.
love-you giving body
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?
love pain heart
There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.
action goes shall
I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes
half life
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.