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"Did you never know?"



Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me --

That your love would never lessen and never go?

You were young then, proud and fresh-hearted,

You were too young to know.



Fate is a wind, and red leaves fly before it

Far apart, far away in the gusty time of year --

Seldom we meet now, but when I hear you speaking,

I know your secret, my dear, my dear.



Sara Teasdale is one of my favorite poets. I think about her writing all the time. I love poetry, I love all the emotion every word just sucks me in more and more. One of the only ways to my heart is poetry.



Here are a few more of her poems~~~



"I am not your's"



I am not yours, not lost in you,

Not lost, although I long to be

Lost as a candle lit at noon,

Lost as a snowflake in the sea.



You love me, and I find you still

A spirit beautiful and bright,

Yet I am I, who long to be

Lost as a light is lost in light.



Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out

My senses, leave me deaf and blind,

Swept by the tempest

of your love,

A taper in a rushing wind.



"I have loved hours at sea"



I have loved hours at sea, gray cities,

The fragile secret of a flower,

Music, the making of a poem

That gave me heaven for an hour;



First stars above a snowy hill,

Voices of people kindly and wise,

And the great look of love, long hidden,

Found at last in meeting eyes.



I have loved much and been loved deeply --

Oh when my spirit's fire burns low,

Leave me the darkness and the stillness,

I shall be tired and glad to go.



Understanding



I understood the rest too well,

And all their thoughts have come to be

Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell

Of a sunny shallow sea.



But you I never understood,

Your spirit's secret hides like gold

Sunk in a Spanish galleon

Ages ago in waters cold.

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sundown
23:28 Nov 04 2010

Another good one is~



"Oh Day of Fire and Sun"



Oh day of fire and sun,

Pure as a naked flame,

Blue sea, blue sky and dun

Sands where he spoke my name;



Laughter and hearts so high

That the spirit flew off free,

Lifting into the sky

Diving into the sea;



Oh day of fire and sun

Like a crystal burning,

Slow days go one by one,

But you have no returning.

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