Time & Brevity

Change

by Sara Teasdale 1884–1933

From Flame and Shadow (1920)

Time & Brevity

Remember me as I was then;
Turn from me now, but always see
The laughing shadowy girl who stood
At midnight by the flowering tree,
With eyes that love had made as bright
As the trembling stars of the summer night.

Turn from me now, but always hear
The muted laughter in the dew
Of that one year of youth we had,
The only youth we ever knew--
Turn from me now, or you will see
What other years have done to me.

MLA

Teasdale, Sara. “Change.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/282/.

Chicago

Teasdale, Sara. “Change.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/282/.

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