by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Dead Love
Language: English
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God let me listen to your voice, And look upon you for a space — And then he took your voice away, And dropped a veil before your face. God let me look within your eyes, And touch for once your clinging hand, And then he left me all alone, And took you to the Silent Land. I cannot weep, I cannot pray, My heart has very silent grown, I only watch how God gives love, And then leaves lovers all alone.
Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Boston : The Poet Lore Company, 1907, p.28
Text Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Dead Love", appears in Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems [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 Johannes Boris Borowski (b. 1979), "Dead Love" [ voice and piano ], from Songs after poems by Sara Teasdale, no. 11, Berlin : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-04
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