Time & Brevity

Leisure

by Sara Teasdale 1884–1933

From Dark of the Moon (1926)

Time & Brevity

If I should make no poems any more
There would be rest at least, so let it be;
Time to read books in other tongues and listen
To the long mellow thunder of the sea.

The year will turn for me, I shall delight in
All animals, and some of my own kind,
Sharing with no one but myself the frosty
And half ironic musings of my mind.

MLA

Teasdale, Sara. “Leisure.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/327/.

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