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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sara Teasdale

Sara Trevor Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1884, into an old, established, and devout family. She was homeschooled until she was nine and traveled frequently to Chicago,...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems About Breakups and Divorce
		A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer

		Donal Óg by Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory

		Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

		Family Reunion by Jeredith Merrin

		from The Aeneid ["So, you traitor"] by Virgil

		Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

		I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run by Matthea Harvey

		Man and Wife by Robert Lowell

		One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

		Remember by Christina Rossetti

		The Gift by Sara Teasdale

		The Primer by Christina Davis

		This Was Once a Love Poem by Jane Hirshfield

		To Earthward by Robert Frost

		When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron

		Why should a foolish marriage vow by John Dryden

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After Love
by Sara Teasdale

There is no magic any more, We meet as other people do, You work no miracle for me Nor I for you. You were the wind and I the sea— There is no splendor any more, I have grown listless as the pool Beside the shore. But though the pool is safe from storm And from the tide has found surcease, It grows more bitter than the sea, For all its peace.

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