Flame and Shadow

Name: Flame and Shadow
Author: Sara Teasdale

by Sara Teasdale

Pages: about 28
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 31 min at 250 wpm

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From the opening

Day and Night Compensation I Remembered "Oh You Are Coming" The Return Gray Eyes The Net The Mystery
Open Windows The New Moon Eight O'Clock Lost Things Pain The Broken Field The Unseen A Prayer
Spring Torrents "I Know the Stars" Understanding Nightfall "It Is Not a Word" "My Heart Is Heavy" The Nights Remember "Let It Be Forgotten"
May Day "Since There Is No Escape" "The Dreams of My Heart" "A Little While" The Garden The Wine In a Cuban Garden "If I Must Go"
In Spring, Santa Barbara White Fog Arcturus Moonlight Morning Song Gray Fog Bells Lovely Chance
"There Will Come Soft Rains" In a Garden Nahant Winter Stars A Boy Winter Dusk
The Unchanging June Night "Like Barley Bending" "Oh Day of Fire and Sun" "I Thought of You" On the Dunes Spray If Death Is Kind
Thoughts Faces Evening: New York Snowfall The Silent Battle The Sanctuary At Sea Dust The Long Hill
Summer Storm In the End "It Will Not Change" Change Water Lilies "Did You Never Know?" The Treasure The Storm
The Tree At Midnight Song Making Alone Red Maples Debtor The Wind in the Hemlock
How many million Aprils came Before I ever knew How white a cherry bough could be, A bed of squills, how blue!
And many a dancing April When life is done with me, Will lift the blue flame of the flower And the white flame of the tree.
Oh burn me with your beauty, then, Oh hurt me, tree and flower, Lest in the end death try to take Even this glistening hour.
O shaken flowers, O shimmering trees, O sunlit white and blue, Wound me, that I, through endless sleep, May bear the scar of you.
Alone in the night On a dark hill With pines around me Spicy and still,

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