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Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

About Sara Teasdale

Timeline (1884 - 1933)

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Original Language
English

Two Songs for Solitude

Themes
  Garden
  Heart
  Lotus
  Lover and Beloved
  Moon

 

Recommended Books

Christmas Carol, by Sara Teasdale
The Collected Poems, by Sara Teasdale
Dark of the Moon, by Sara Teasdale
Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale

The Crystal Gazer

I shall gather myself into myself again,
     I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
     Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
 
I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
     Watching the future come and the present go--
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
     In tiny self-importance to and fro.


The Solitary

Let them think I love them more than I do,
     Let them think I care, though I go alone,
If it lifts their pride, what is it to me
     Who am self-complete as a flower or a stone?
 
It is one to me that they come or go
     If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And strength to climb on a summer night
     And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
 
My heart has grown rich with the passing of years,
     I have less need now than when I was young
To share myself with every comer,
     Or shape my thoughts into words with my tongue.
 

 

1920

 

 

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