Cold Quotes by Sara Teasdale

8 Cold quotes by Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale’s eight short poems about cold weave delicate emotion with natural imagery, delivering a compact taste of her tender voice. Ideal for a brief, poetic pause.

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I stood beside a hill Smooth with new-laid snow, A single star looked out From the cold evening glow. There was not…

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It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes;The…

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When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken…

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My heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the…

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My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

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I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and…

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I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves…

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But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

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“Oh, I could let the world go by, Its loud new wonders and its wars, BUt how will I give up the sky When…

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“I gave my first love laughter, I gave my second tears, I gave my third love silence Through all the years. My first love…

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“On a midsummer night, on a night that was eerie with stars, In a wood too deep for a single star to look through,…

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But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,…

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