Love Songs

Produced by A. Light and L. Bowser. For Gwenette.
Love Songs
Sara Teasdale
Author of Rivers to the Sea , Helen of Troy and Other Poems , Etc.
To E.
I have remembered beauty in the night, Against black silences I waked to see A shower of sunlight over Italy And green Ravello dreaming on her height; I have remembered music in the dark, The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's, And running water singing on the rocks When once in English woods I heard a lark.
But all remembered beauty is no more Than a vague prelude to the thought of you— You are the rarest soul I ever knew, Lover of beauty, knightliest and best; My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore, And when I think of you, I am at rest.
Prefatory Note
Beside new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from Rivers to the Sea , Helen of Troy and Other Poems , and one or two from an earlier volume.
Contents
Barter Twilight Night Song at Amalfi The Look A Winter Night A Cry Gifts But Not to Me Song at Capri Child, Child Love Me Pierrot Wild Asters The Song for Colin Four Winds Debt Faults Buried Love The Fountain I Shall Not Care After Parting A Prayer Spring Night May Wind Tides After Love New Love and Old The Kiss Swans The River November Spring Rain The Ghost Summer Night, Riverside Jewels
Interlude: Songs out of Sorrow