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Title: Flame and Shadow

Author: Sara Teasdale

Posting Date: July 30, 2008 [EBook #591]
Release Date: July, 1996

Language: English


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Flame and Shadow


By

Sara Teasdale



[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces.
Italicized words or phrases are marked by tildes (~).
Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces. Also, some obvious errors
may have been corrected. ]





Flame and Shadow


By

Sara Teasdale



Author of "Rivers to the Sea", "Love Songs", etc.





To E.

"Recois la flamme ou l'ombre
De tous mes jours. "





Contents



I

Blue Squills
Stars
"What Do I Care? "
Meadowlarks
Driftwood
"I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
August Moonrise



Memories


II

Places
Old Tunes
"Only in Sleep"
Redbirds
Sunset: St.
Flame and Shadow


By

Sara Teasdale



[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces.
Italicized words or phrases are marked by tildes (~).
Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces. Also, some obvious errors
may have been corrected. ]





Flame and Shadow


By

Sara Teasdale



Author of "Rivers to the Sea", "Love Songs", etc.





To E.

"Recois la flamme ou l'ombre
De tous mes jours. "





Contents



I

Blue Squills
Stars
"What Do I Care? "
Meadowlarks
Driftwood
"I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
August Moonrise



Memories


II

Places
Old Tunes
"Only in Sleep"
Redbirds
Sunset: St. Louis
The Coin
The Voice


III

Day and Night
Compensation
I Remembered
"Oh You Are Coming"
The Return
Gray Eyes
The Net
The Mystery



In a Hospital

IV

Open Windows
The New Moon
Eight O'Clock
Lost Things
Pain
The Broken Field
The Unseen
A Prayer


V

Spring Torrents
"I Know the Stars"
Understanding
Nightfall
"It Is Not a Word"
"My Heart Is Heavy"
The Nights Remember
"Let It Be Forgotten"



The Dark Cup

VI

May Day
"Since There Is No Escape"
"The Dreams of My Heart"
"A Little While"
The Garden
The Wine
In a Cuban Garden
"If I Must Go"


VII

In Spring, Santa Barbara
White Fog
Arcturus
Moonlight
Morning Song
Gray Fog
Bells
Lovely Chance


VIII

"There Will Come Soft Rains"
In a Garden
Nahant
Winter Stars
A Boy
Winter Dusk



By the Sea

IX

The Unchanging
June Night
"Like Barley Bending"
"Oh Day of Fire and Sun"
"I Thought of You"
On the Dunes
Spray
If Death Is Kind


X

Thoughts
Faces
Evening: New York
Snowfall
The Silent Battle
The Sanctuary
At Sea
Dust
The Long Hill


XI

Summer Storm
In the End
"It Will Not Change"
Change
Water Lilies
"Did You Never Know? "
The Treasure
The Storm



Songs For Myself

XII

The Tree
At Midnight
Song Making
Alone
Red Maples
Debtor
The Wind in the Hemlock




Flame and Shadow




I


Blue Squills


How many million Aprils came
Before I ever knew
How white a cherry bough could be,
A bed of squills, how blue!

And many a dancing April
When life is done with me,
Will lift the blue flame of the flower
And the white flame of the tree.

Oh burn me with your beauty, then,
Oh hurt me, tree and flower,
Lest in the end death try to take
Even this glistening hour.

O shaken flowers, O shimmering trees,
O sunlit white and blue,
Wound me, that I, through endless sleep,
May bear the scar of you.




Stars



Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still,

And a heaven full of stars
Over my head,
White and topaz
And misty red;

Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
That aeons
Cannot vex or tire;

Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill,
I watch them marching
Stately and still,

And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty.




"What Do I Care?