Chapter I: Front Matter

DARK
OF
THE
MOON

_BOOKS BY SARA TEASDALE_

SONNETS TO DUSE (out of print)
HELEN OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS
RIVERS TO THE SEA
LOVE SONGS
FLAME AND SHADOW

_ANTHOLOGIES_:

THE ANSWERING VOICE: ONE HUNDRED LOVE LYRICS BY WOMEN
RAINBOW GOLD: POEMS OLD AND NEW, SELECTED FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

DARK OF THE MOON

BY
SARA TEASDALE

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1926

_Copyright, 1921, by Harper Brothers, Charles
Scribner’s Sons, The Century Company, Harcourt
Brace and Company, George H. Doran Company, The
New Republic, Inc., and The Yale Publishing
Association._

_Copyright, 1922, by The Century Company, Harcourt
Brace and Company, Vanity Fair Publishing
Company, Inc., and George H. Doran Company._

_Copyright, 1923, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, The
Century Company, The New Republic, Inc., Gene
Derwood and The Atlantic Monthly Company._

_Copyright, 1924, by The Dial Publishing Company,
Inc., The Century Company, George H. Doran Co.,
and Harriet Monroe._

_Copyright, 1925, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and
The Yale Publishing Association._

_Copyright, 1926, by The Atlantic Monthly Company,
The Yale Publishing Association, The New
Republic, Inc., The Saturday Review Co., Inc.,
Charles Scribner’s Sons, and The New York
Herald-Tribune, Inc._

COPYRIGHT, 1926,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

_to_ E.

_Thanks are due to the editors of Scribner’s
Magazine, The New Republic, The Yale Review,
Poetry, The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The
London Mercury and other publications for their
permission to reprint certain of the following
poems._

_For permission to set any of the poems to
music, application should be made to the
author._

_Contents_

I

_THERE WILL BE STARS_ PAGE
ON THE SUSSEX DOWNS 15

AUGUST NIGHT 16

TWO MINDS 17

WORDS FOR AN OLD AIR 18

MOUNTAIN WATER 19

AT TINTAGIL 20

“THERE WILL BE STARS” 21

II

_PICTURES OF AUTUMN_
AUTUMN 25

SEPTEMBER DAY 26

FONTAINEBLEAU 27

LATE OCTOBER 28

III

_SAND DRIFT_
“BEAUTIFUL, PROUD SEA” 31

LAND’S END 32

SAND DRIFT 33

BLUE STARGRASS 34

SEPTEMBER NIGHT 35

LOW TIDE 36

IV

_PORTRAITS_
EFFIGY OF A NUN 39

THOSE WHO LOVE 41

EPITAPH 42

APPRAISAL 43

THE WISE WOMAN 44

“SHE WHO COULD BIND YOU” 45

“SO THIS WAS ALL” 46

V

_MIDSUMMER NIGHTS_
TWILIGHT 49

FULL MOON 50

THE FOUNTAIN 51

CLEAR EVENING 52

NOT BY THE SEA 53

MIDSUMMER NIGHT 54

VI

_THE CRYSTAL GAZER_
THE CRYSTAL GAZER 57

THE SOLITARY 58

DAY’S ENDING 59

A REPLY 60

LEISURE 61

“I SHALL LIVE TO BE OLD” 62

WISDOM 63

THE OLD ENEMY 64

VII

_BERKSHIRE NOTES_
WINTER SUN 67

A DECEMBER DAY 68

FEBRUARY TWILIGHT 69

“I HAVE SEEN THE SPRING” 70

WIND ELEGY 71

IN THE WOOD 72

AUTUMN DUSK 73

VIII

_ARCTURUS IN AUTUMN_
ARCTURUS IN AUTUMN 77

“I COULD SNATCH A DAY” 78

AN END 79

FOREKNOWN 80

WINTER 81

WINTER NIGHT SONG 82

NEVER AGAIN 83

THE TUNE 84

IX

_THE FLIGHT_
THE BELOVED 87

“WHEN I AM NOT WITH YOU” 88

DEDICATION 89

ON A MARCH DAY 90

LET IT BE YOU 91

THE FLIGHT 92