Rivers to the sea / Sara Teasdale [electronic text]

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Title
Rivers to the sea / Sara Teasdale [electronic text]
Author
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933
Publication
New York: MacMillan
1915
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"Rivers to the sea / Sara Teasdale [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAC5724.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

Pages

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

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But over the roofs there came The wet new wind of May, And a tune blew up from the curb Where the street-pianos play.
My room was white with the sun And Love cried out in me, "I am strong, I will break your heart Unless you set me free."
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