Love Songs

Name: Love Songs
Author: Sara Teasdale

by Sara Teasdale

Pages: about 22
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 25 min at 250 wpm

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From the opening

The Flight Dew To-night Ebb Tide I Would Live in Your Love Because The Tree of Song The Giver April Song The Wanderer The Years Enough Come Joy Riches Dusk in War Time Peace Moods Houses of Dreams Lights "I Am Not Yours" Doubt The Wind Morning Other Men Embers Message The Lamp
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.
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.
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 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?
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.

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