17 Sara Teasdale Quotes on Love

Sara Teasdale quotes on love

4. Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

5. We weep before the Blessed Mother's shrine, To think upon her sorrows, but her joys What nun could ever know a tithing of? The precious hours she watched above His sleep Were worth the fearful anguish of the end. Yea, lack of love is bitterest of all.

6. All this grows bitter that was once so sweet, And many mouths must drain the dregs of it. But none will pity me, nor pity him Whom Love so lashed, and with such cruel thongs.

8. I may not speak till Eros' torch is dim, The god is bitter and will have it so.

9. I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea, Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes.

10. Perhaps when all the world is bare And cruel winter holds the land, The Love that finds no place to hide Will run and catch my hand. I shall not care to have him then, I shall be bitter and a-cold - It grows too late for frolicking When all the world is old. Then little hiding Love, come forth, Come forth before the autumn goes, And let us seek thro' ruined paths The garden's last red rose.

11. For tho' I know he loves me, To-night my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.

12. With the man I love who loves me not I walked in the street-lamps' flare - But oh, the girls who can ask for love In the lights of Union Square.

14. I hope that when he smiles at me He does not guess my joy and pain, For if he did, he is too kind To ever look my way again.

17. Oh, beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love?

18. I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,- You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold.

20. But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all, I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

21. How should they know that Sappho lived and died Faithful to love, not faithful to the lover, Never transfused and lost in what she loved, Never so wholly loving nor at peace.

25. But I will turn my eyes from you As women turn to put away The jewels they have worn at night And cannot wear in sober day.

26. If I can find out God, then I shall find Him, If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly, Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.

30. It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks.

34. Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have I That I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?