February

uswritten by Sara Teasdale

They spoke of him I love
With cruel words and gay;
My lips kept silent guard
On all I could not say.

I heard, and down the street
The lonely trees in the square
Stood in the winter wind
Patient and bare.

I heard . . . oh voiceless trees
Under the wind, I knew
The eager terrible spring
Hidden in you.



Sara Teasdale

Other poems by Sara Teasdale

Love and Death

uswritten by Sara Teasdale, published on Sun 04.17.2011 at 14:05

Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep,
And shall my soul that lies within your hand

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Youth and the Pilgrim

uswritten by Sara Teasdale, published on Sun 04.17.2011 at 06:56

Gray pilgrim, you have journeyed far,
I pray you tell to me
Is there a land where Love is not,
By shore of any sea?

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The Broken Field

uswritten by Sara Teasdale, published on Mon 04.11.2011 at 22:58

My soul is a dark ploughed field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.
Where grass and bending flowers

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Deep in the Night

uswritten by Sara Teasdale, published on Sun 04.10.2011 at 06:28

Deep in the night the cry of a swallow,
Under the stars he flew,
Keen as pain was his call to follow
Over the world to you.

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Immortal

uswritten by Sara Teasdale, published on Thu 03.31.2011 at 01:02

So soon my body will have gone
Beyond the sound and sight of men,
And tho' it wakes and suffers now,

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Like Barley Bending

uswritten by Sara Teasdale, published on Fri 03.18.2011 at 08:52

Like barley bending
In low fields by the sea,
Singing in hard wind
Ceaselessly;
Like barley bending
And rising again,

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