Sara Teasdale

Are expressions of love confined to one day a year? Hardly!

Here is a poem for your consideration on this Valentine’s Day:

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933), American lyric poet, who in 1918 won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs.

I Am Not Yours

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
Oh plunge me deep in love—put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.
--Sara Teasdale