Flame and shadow / Sara Teasdale [electronic text]

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Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933

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New York: The Macmillan Company

1926

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"Flame and shadow / Sara Teasdale [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD7803.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.

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PAIN

 WAVES are the sea's white daughters, And raindrops the children of rain, But why for my shimmering body Have I a mother like Pain?   

 Night is the mother of stars, And wind the mother of foam— The world is brimming with beauty, But I must stay at home.   