The answering voice
THE ANSWERING VOICE
ONE HUNDRED LOVE LYRICS BY WOMEN
SELECTED BY SARA TEASDALE
AUTHOR OF “RIVERS TO THE SEA,” “HELEN OF TROY, AND OTHER POEMS,” ETC.
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY SARA TEASDALE FILSINGER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1917
THE HAPPY LABOR
OF SELECTING THESE POEMS
I DEDICATE TO
MY SISTER
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PREFATORY NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
SOMEWHERE OR OTHER
THE BIRCH TREE AT LOSCHWITZ
TO ONE UNKNOWN
“I HAVE WANDERED TO A SPRING”
LOVE ME AT LAST
RED MAY
LOVE IS A TERRIBLE THING
A CONNAUGHT LAMENT
VOS NON VOBIS
“OH, THE BURDEN, THE BURDEN OF LOVE UNGIVEN”
“I SAT AMONG THE GREEN LEAVES”
IN THE PARK
THE ENCHANTED SHEEP-FOLD
A BIRTHDAY
FOUND
CHOICE
“SO BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE INDEED”
AN INCANTATION
LOVE SONG
THE HEART’S COUNTRY
RHAPSODY
“WHEN ON THE MARGE OF EVENING”
“BELOVÈD, MY BELOVÈD, WHEN I THINK”
APOLOGY
RAIN
THE NAME
“I LEANED OUT MY WINDOW”
RAIN, RAIN!
THE HAWTHORN TREE
ECSTASY
THE MAN WITH A HAMMER
THE GREAT MAN
I KNOW
REST
“IF THOU MUST LOVE ME, LET IT BE FOR NOUGHT”
THE TIRED WOMAN
“HOW DO I LOVE THEE?”
THE TAXI
“YOU SAY THERE IS NO LOVE”
DEBTS
A WOMAN’S QUESTION
COMRADES
IN DEEP PLACES
THAT DAY YOU CAME
PARTING
AN OLD SONG
“I WILL NOT GIVE THEE ALL MY HEART”
GIFTS
MENACE
LOVE SONG
POSSESSION
“YET FOR ONE ROUNDED MOMENT”
INSUFFICIENCY
“I MUST NOT YIELD”
“GO FROM ME”
RENOUNCEMENT
A FAREWELL
LOVE’S CHANGE
WHEN PLAINTIVELY AND NEAR THE CRICKET SINGS
“COME BACK TO ME”
ASHES OF LIFE
THE CYNIC
SEA SONG
RISPETTO
RISPETTO
RISPETTO
“MANY IN AFTERTIMES WILL SAY”
“WHEN WE SHALL BE DUST”
I AM THE WIND
SERVICE
PARTING
FRIENDSHIP AFTER LOVE
THE MESSAGE
THE OTHER
THE RAINBOW
LOVE CAME BACK AT FALL O’ DEW
FROM A CAR-WINDOW
THE SILLER CROWN
“CUTTIN’ RUSHES”
TO A LATE COMER
CARNATIONS
A REMINISCENCE
DIRGE
“TO-DAY I WENT AMONG THE MOUNTAIN FOLK”
AN APRIL GHOST
THE DEEP-SEA PEARL
AULD ROBIN GRAY
FINIS
“GRANDMITHER, THINK NOT I FORGET”
THE PASSER-BY
“WHEN I AM DEAD”
REQUIESCAT
“DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE”
UNWEDDED
UNFULFILLED
A LYNMOUTH WIDOW
“LESS THAN THE DUST”
NORAH
THE MAN
“UNDER DUSKY LAUREL LEAF”
INDEX OF AUTHORS
Transcriber’s Notes