November

Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale portrait

1884 to 1933

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The world is tired, the year is old,
The faded leaves are glad to die,
The wind goes shivering with cold
Where the brown reeds are dry.

Our love is dying like the grass,
And we who kissed grow coldly kind,
Half glad to see our poor love pass
Like leaves along the wind.

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