by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Wisdom
Language: English
Our translations: FRE
When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange -- my youth.
Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Love Songs, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1917, page 50.
Text Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Wisdom", appears in Love Songs, in 2. Interlude: Songs out of Sorrow, no. 4, first published 1917 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "Wisdom" [voice and piano], from Songs of Experience, no. 3. [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title 1: "Sagesse", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-24
Line count: 8
Word count: 50