Flower Quotes by Sara Teasdale

11 Flower quotes by Sara Teasdale

Teasdale’s compact garden of flower verses carries her signature romantic melancholy. Though only a handful, each line sings with the quiet longing that defines her poetry.

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My heart is a garden tired with autumn.

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

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For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To…

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The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

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The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun, And the petals fall on the orchard wall, But…

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Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten…

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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow…

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Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless…

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

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“It was a night of early spring, The winter-sleep was scarcely broken; Around us shadows and the wind Listened for what was…

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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 other creature…

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Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty…

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From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my…

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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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“ At Night Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and…

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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 years…

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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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“I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights; Nor angels…

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