Sara Teasdale

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”

“Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.”

“I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.”

“Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.”

“Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes H...”

“In my heart's most secret place, I pity them as angels do.”

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.”

“Wisdom When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm a...”

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.”

“There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum-tr...”

“I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright...”

“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.”

“Barter 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...”

“Autumn Dusk I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.”

“There Will Be Stars There will be stars over the place forever; Though the house we loved and the street we loved are lost, Every time the earth circles her orbit On the night the autumn equ...”

“I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me”

“Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.”

“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 b...”

“What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all? For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire, I am an answer, they are only a call”