Unless I learn to ask no help From any other soul but mine,… - Sara Teasdale

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Unless I learn to ask no help
From any other soul but mine,
To seek no strength in waving reeds
Nor shade beneath a straggling pine;
Unless I learn to look at Grief
Unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes,
And take from Pleasure fearlessly
Whatever gifts will make me wise — Unless I learn these things on earth,
Why was I ever given birth?

Sara Teasdale

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Sarah Trevor Teasdale (8 August 1884 – 29 January 1933) was an American poet.

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Alternative Names: Sara Teasdale Filsinger • Sara Trevor Teasdale

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Edna St. Vincent Millay Anna Akhmatova John Keats William Butler Yeats Alfred Tennyson

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Love me with your whole heart
Or give no love to me,
Half-love is a poor thing,
Neither bond nor free.

You must love me gladly
Soul and body too,
Or else find a new love,
And good-by to you.

I have shut my heart
As one shuts an open door,
That Love may starve therein
And trouble me no more.

I try to catch at many a tune Like petals of light fallen from the moon, Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,<p>But they float away — for who can hold Youth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

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