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Sara Teasdale


                photograph by Jessie TarboxBeals (1920)

 

I Shall Not Care

When I am dead and over me bright April 

Shakes out her rain-drenched hair, 
Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted, 
I shall not care. 

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful 
When rain bends down the bough, 
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted 
Than you are now. 

John Ashbery

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