„Oh, beauty, are you not enough?
Why am I crying after love?“
— Sara Teasdale, Spring Night
"Spring Night"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
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Sara Teasdale
Data de nascimento: 8. Agosto 1884
Data de falecimento: 29. Janeiro 1933
Sara Teasdale foi uma poeta lírica estadunidense. Foi batizada Sarah Trevor Teasdale em St. Louis, Missouri, e passou a usar o nome Sara Teasdale Filsinger após o seu casamento, em 1914.
Citações Sara Teasdale
„Oh, beauty, are you not enough?
„There is no sign of leaf or bud,
A hush is over everything —
Silent as women wait for love,
The world is waiting for the spring.“
"Central Park at Dusk"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
„I have grown weary of the winds of heaven.
I will not be a reed to hold the sound
Of whatsoever breath the gods may blow,
Turning my torment into music for them.
They gave me life; the gift was bountiful,
I lived with the swift singing strength of fire,
Seeking for beauty as a flame for fuel —
Beauty in all things and in every hour.
The gods have given life — I gave them song;
The debt is paid and now I turn to go.“
"Sappho (Rivers to the Sea)"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
„When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care. I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough,
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.“
"I Shall Not Care
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
„Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love —
But you will not assuage him. He alone
Of all the gods will take no gifts from men.“
"Erinna"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
„But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.“
"Understanding"
Flame and Shadow (1920)
„Oh, is it not enough to be
Here with this beauty over me?
My throat should ache with praise, and I
Should kneel in joy beneath the sky.
Oh, beauty are you not enough?“
— Sara Teasdale, Spring Night
"Spring Night"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
„No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.“
Advice to a Girl http://books.google.com/books?id=Hl5bAAAAMAAJ&q=%22No+one+worth+possessing+Can+be+quite+possessed%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage, Strange Victory (1933)
„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.“
"Love in Autumn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
