Faces

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Faces  (1920) 
by Sara Teasdale

People that I meet and pass
     In the city's broken roar,
Faces that I lose so soon
     And have never found before,

Do you know how much you tell
     In the meeting of our eyes,
How ashamed I am, and sad
     To have pierced your poor disguise?

Secrets rushing without sound
     Crying from your hiding places --
Let me go, I cannot bear
     The sorrow of the passing faces.

-- People in the restless street,
     Can it be, oh can it be
In the meeting of our eyes
     That you know as much of me?


PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923.

The author died in 1933, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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