"Barter" by Sara Teasdale

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend December 30, 2017   Barter   Sara Teasdale

Life has loveliness to sell,    All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff,    Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up Holding wonder in a cup.   Life has loveliness to sell,    Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain,    Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.   Spend all you have for loveliness,    Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace    Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstacy Give all you have been, or could be.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Barter" appeared in Love Songs (The Macmillan Company, 1917).   Sara Teasdale was born in 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her poetry collections include Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (The Poet Lore Company, 1907), Rivers to the Sea (The Macmillan Company, 1915), and Love Songs (The Macmillan Company, 1917), which received the Pulitzer Prize. She died in 1933. Poetry by Teasdale   Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (Macmillan, 1937) "Weave in, My Hardy Life" by Walt Whitman "Prayer at Sunrise" by James Weldon Johnson "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Help Support Poem-a-Day This Holiday Season   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a tax-deductible monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. As the year comes to a close, we are raising funds to support this one-of-a-kind free series, which showcases hundreds of poems by today's poets, as well as classic poems. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038