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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 Difficult Love
		A Love Song by William Carlos Williams, read by Ron Silliman

		Anna, Thy Charms by Robert Burns

		Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

		Caboose Thoughts by Carl Sandburg

		Dregs by César Vallejo

		He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman

		I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

		I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

		Last Words to Miriam by D. H. Lawrence

		Love's Secret by William Blake

		Loving and Beloved by Sir John Suckling

		Never give all the heart by W. B. Yeats

		One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

		Opal by Amy Lowell

		Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?] by Petrarch

		Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace] by Petrarch

		The Barrier by Claude McKay

		The More Loving One by W. H. Auden, read by Nick Laird

		The Peace That So Lovingly Descends by Noelle Kocot

		To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton

		What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman

		Witch-Wife by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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What Do I Care
by Sara Teasdale

What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all? For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire, I am an answer, they are only a call. But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by, For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
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