Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Union Square
1With the man I love who loves me not,
2 I walked in the street-lamps' flare;
3We watched the world go home that night
4 In a flood through Union Square.
5I leaned to catch the words he said
6 That were light as a snowflake falling;
7Ah well that he never leaned to hear
8 The words my heart was calling.
9And on we walked and on we walked
10 Past the fiery lights of the picture shows --
11Where the girls with thirsty eyes go by
12 On the errand each man knows.
13And on we walked and on we walked,
14 At the door at last we said good-bye;
15I knew by his smile he had not heard
16 My heart's unuttered cry.
17With the man I love who loves me not
18 I walked in the street-lamps' flare --
19But oh, the girls who ask for love
20 In the lights of Union Square.
Notes
1] park in south-central Manhattan.
10] picture shows: movies
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: Helen of Troy and Other Poems (New York: Putnam's, 1911).
First publication date:
1911
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2004
Recent editing: 1:2004/1/30
Form: quatrains
Rhyme: abcb
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