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chloekg's review
4.0
Written in the shadow of WWI, Love Songs is full of youth already nostalgic for a better time. It's lyricism is like pale watercolor with occasional blush of opacity. There is good content, though its recommendation is in its execution.
katiemichellereads's review
4.0
There were a few poems I didn't like, but not many. Overall I loved most of them!
bmg20's review
5.0
Sara Teasdale wrote Love Songs in 1917 and received 3 awards for it: the Columbia University Poetry Society prize, the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America. It's a beautiful collection of poetry that I'm so thankful to have stumbled upon.
My absolute favorite:
"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.
My absolute favorite:
"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.
trudy_joan's review
fast-paced
2.0
Only read this because I was dying of boredom on a road trip. There were a couple good lines. The last stanza of Peace and the poem Morning were okay. My favorite poetry of hers wasn’t in here.
wanderlustlover's review
5.0
I read this one first and it stole my heart entirely.
I called my girlfriend and read one of the poems to her voicemail, that was so deeply how I felt about her. And wrote another on my journal that seemed so much like me at this time. And I got lost in the deep beauty of this.
I called my girlfriend and read one of the poems to her voicemail, that was so deeply how I felt about her. And wrote another on my journal that seemed so much like me at this time. And I got lost in the deep beauty of this.
ultimatecryptid's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
sad
4.0
Beautiful poems which really explore the bredth of emotions that can come coupled with love, including some of the more negative ones like disappointment.