RPO -- Sara Teasdale : Eight O'Clock

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Eight O'Clock

1Supper comes at five o'clock,

2 At six, the evening star,

3My lover comes at eight o'clock --

4 But eight o'clock is far.

5How could I bear my pain all day

6 Unless I watched to see

7The clock-hands laboring to bring

8 Eight o'clock to me.

Notes

2] The planet Venus appears to follow the sun as it rises and falls in the sky.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Flame and Shadow (New York: Macmillan, 1924): 44. PS 3539 E15F6 Robarts Library
First publication date: 1924
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2004
Recent editing: 1:2004/1/30

Form: quatrains
Rhyme: abcb

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