Tides

Tides by Sara Teasdale

From Love Songs Part I

Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
      Where the starlike sea gulls soar;
The sun was keen and the foam was blowing
      High on the rocky shore.

But now in the dusk the tide is turning,
      Lower the sea gulls soar,
And the waves that rose in resistless yearning
      Are broken forevermore.

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