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  Love Songs
  Love Songs
  By Sara Teasdale
  'American (Missouri & New York) poet;
  1884…1933。'
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  To E。
  I   have   remembered   beauty   in   the   night;   Against   black   silences   I
  waked     to  see   A    shower    of  sunlight   over   Italy  And    green   Ravello
  dreaming on her height; I have remembered music in the dark;                The clean
  swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's;         And running water singing on the
  rocks When once in English woods I heard a lark。
  But all remembered beauty is no more             Than a vague prelude to the
  thought of you        You are the rarest soul I ever knew;Lover of beauty;
  knightliest    and   best;  My    thoughts   seek   you   as  waves    that  seek   the
  shore;And when I think of you; I am at rest。
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  Prefatory Note
  Beside new poems; this book contains lyrics taken from 〃Rivers to the
  Sea〃; 〃Helen of Troy and Other Poems〃; and one or two from an earlier
  volume。
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  Barter
  Life   has   loveliness   to   sell; All   beautiful   and   splendid   things;   Blue
  waves     whitened    on   a  cliff; Soaring     fire  that  sways    and  sings;   And
  children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup。
  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。
  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。
  Twilight
  Dreamily over  the  roofs        The  cold spring rain   is   falling;   Out in the
  lonely tree    A bird is calling; calling。
  Slowly over the earth        The wings of night are falling; My heart like
  the bird in the tree    Is calling; calling; calling。
  Night Song at Amalfi
  I   asked   the   heaven    of  stars  What     I  should    give  my    love    It
  answered me with silence;         Silence above。
  I asked the darkened sea         Down where the fishers go  It answered
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  me with silence;      Silence below。
  Oh; I could give him weeping;          Or I could give him song  But how
  can I give silence;     My whole life long?
  The Look
  Strephon kissed me in the spring;          Robin in the fall; But Colin only
  looked at me      And never kissed at all。
  Strephon's kiss was lost in jest;       Robin's lost in play; But the kiss in
  Colin's eyes     Haunts me night and day。
  A Winter Night
  My  window…pane   is   starred   with   frost;    The   world   is   bitter   cold   to…
  night;   The   moon   is   cruel;   and   the   wind Is   like   a   two…edged   sword   to
  smite。
  God pity all the homeless ones;          The beggars pacing to and fro; God
  pity all the poor to…night     Who walk the lamp…lit streets of snow。
  My room is like a bit of June;        Warm and close…curtained fold on fold;
  But somewhere; like a homeless child;           My heart is crying in the cold。
  A Cry
  Oh;   there   are   eyes   that   he   can   see; And   hands   to   make   his   hands
  rejoice; But to my lover I must be        Only a voice。
  Oh; there are breasts to bear his head;         And lips whereon his lips can
  lie; But I must be till I am dead      Only a cry。
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  Gifts
  I gave my first love laughter;      I gave my second tears; I gave my third
  love silence    Through all the years。
  My first love gave me singing;         My second eyes to see; But oh; it was
  my third love     Who gave my soul to me。
  But Not to Me
  The April night is still and sweet        With flowers on every tree; Peace
  comes to them on quiet feet;But not to me。
  My peace is hidden in his breast        Where I shall never be; Love comes
  to…night to all the rest;But not to me。
  Song at Capri
  When beauty grows too great to bear           How shall I ease me of its ache;
  For beauty more than bitterness        Makes the heart break。
  Now while I watch the dreaming sea            With isles like flowers against
  her breast; Only one voice in all the world        Could give me rest。
  Child; Child
  Child; child; love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of
  a man; Never fear though it break your heart  Out of the wound new joy
  will start; Only love proudly and gladly and well; Though love be heaven
  or love be hell。
  Child;   child;   love   while   you   may;   For   life   is   short   as   a   happy   day;
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  Never fear the thing you feel  Only by love is life made real; Love; for
  the deadly sins are seven; Only through love will you enter heaven。
  Love Me
  Brown…thrush singing all day long          In the leaves above me; Take my
  love this April song;     〃Love me; love me; love me!〃
  When he harkens what you say;           Bid him; lest he miss me; Leave his
  work or leave his play;      And kiss me; kiss me; kiss me!
  Pierrot
  Pierrot stands in the garden       Beneath a waning moon; And on his lute
  he fashions     A fragile silver tune。
  Pierrot plays in the garden;      He thinks he plays for me; But I am quite
  forgotten    Under the cherry tree。
  Pierrot plays in the garden;      And all the roses know That Pierrot loves
  his music;     But I love Pierrot。
  Wild Asters
  In   the   spring   I   asked   the   daisies If   his   words   were   true;   And   the
  clever; clear…eyed daisies     Always knew。
  Now the fields are brown and barren;            Bitter autumn blows; And of
  all the stupid asters    Not one knows。
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  The Song for Colin
  I sang a song at dusking time      Beneath the evening star; And Terence
  left his latest rhyme   To answer from afar。
  Pierrot laid down his lute to weep;       And sighed; 〃She sings for me。〃
  But Colin slept a careless sleep     Beneath an apple tree。
  Four Winds
  〃Four winds blowing through the sky; You have seen poor maidens die;
  Tell me then what I shall do That my lover may be true。〃 Said the wind
  from out the south; 〃Lay no kiss upon his mouth;〃 And the wind from out
  the west; 〃Wound the heart within his breast;〃 And the wind from out the
  east; 〃Send him empty from the feast;〃 And the wind from out the north;
  〃In the tempest thrust him forth; When thou art more cruel than he; Then
  will Love be kind to thee。〃
  Debt
  What do I owe to you       Who loved me deep and long? You never gave
  my spirit wings     Or gave my heart a song。
  But oh; to him I loved;     Who loved me not at all; I owe the open gate
  That led through heaven's wall。
  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;
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  Oh; they were blind; too blind to see Your faults had made me love you
  more。