Nature
Song at Capri
From Love Songs
Nature
When beauty grows too great to bear
How shall I ease me of its ache,
For beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
Now while I watch the dreaming sea
With isles like flowers against her breast,
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest.
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MLA
Teasdale, Sara. “Song at Capri.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/97/.
Chicago
Teasdale, Sara. “Song at Capri.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/97/.
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