Love Songs (1917)
LOVE SONGS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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LOVE SONGS
BY
SARA TEASDALE
author of
"rivers to the sea,"
"helen of troy and other poems," etc.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1917
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1907, by Sara Teasdale
Copyright, 1911, by Sara Teasdale
Copyright, 1915, by The Macmillan Co.
Copyright, 1917,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published, September, 1917.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To E.
I have remembered beauty in the night,
Against black silences I waked to see
A shower of sunlight over Italy
And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
I have remembered music in the dark,
The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
And running water singing on the rocks
When once in English woods I heard a lark.
But all remembered beauty is no more
Than a vague prelude to the thought of you—
You are the rarest soul I ever knew,
Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;
My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,
And when I think of you, I am at rest.
PREFATORY NOTE
Beside new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from "Rivers to the Sea" (The Macmillan Company), "Helen of Troy and Other Poems" (G. P. Putnam's Sons), and one or two from an earlier volume. Thanks are due to the editors of Harper's, Century, Scribner's, Poetry and other periodicals for their permission to include poems hitherto unpublished in book form.
For permission to set any of these poems to music, application should be made to the author through the publishers.
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