RPO -- Sara Teasdale : Let it be Forgotten

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Let it be Forgotten

1Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,

2 Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,

3Let it be forgotten for ever and ever,

4 Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

5If anyone asks, say it was forgotten

6 Long and long ago,

7As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfall

8 In a long forgotten snow.

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). 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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