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Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more
To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,
It is that thou hast made my life too sweet
To hold the added sweetness of a song.
There is a quiet at the heart of love,
And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

— Sara Teasdale Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

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Oh, beauty, are you not enough?
Why am I crying after love?

Rivers to the Sea (1915)

For tho' I know he loves me,
To-night my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.

Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.

I hope that when he smiles at me
He does not guess my joy and pain,
For if he did, he is too kind
To ever look my way again.

Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

I may not speak till Eros' torch is dim,
The god is bitter and will have it so.

Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

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