Love Songs
by Sara Teasdale
Love Songs is the title poem in Teasdale's collection which earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1918. We feature it in our collection of Pulitzer Prize Poetry.
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.
Love Songs
was featured as
The Short Story of the Day
on Thu, Aug 08, 2024
You may also enjoy the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, who also died a tragic death early in life, To a Skylark.
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