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 15, 2024.

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"MY HEART IS HEAVY"

 MY heart is heavy with many a song Like ripe fruit bearing down the tree, But I can never give you one— My songs do not belong to me.   

 Yet in the evening, in the dusk When moths go to and fro, In the gray hour if the fruit has fallen, Take it, no one will know.   