Arts & Sciences

The Song Maker

by Sara Teasdale 1884–1933

From Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Arts & Sciences

I made a hundred little songs
That told the joy and pain of love,
And sang them blithely, tho' I knew
No whit thereof.

I was a weaver deaf and blind;
A miracle was wrought for me,
But I have lost my skill to weave
Since I can see.

For while I sang--ah swift and strange!
Love passed and touched me on the brow,
And I who made so many songs
Am silent now.

MLA

Teasdale, Sara. “The Song Maker.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/147/.

Chicago

Teasdale, Sara. “The Song Maker.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/147/.

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