Life has loveliness to sell,All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff,Soaring fire that sways and sings,And children's faces looking upHolding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale · Love Songs
Joy & wonder
“Life has loveliness to sell,”
- Author
- Sara Teasdale
- Work
- Love Songs
- Year
- 1917
- Chapter / part
- Barter
- Length
- 32 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #442
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Sara Teasdale died in 1933, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1917. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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