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Song at Capri

When beauty grows too great to bear
  How shall I ease me of its ache,
  For beauty more than bitterness
   Makes the heart break.

  Now while I watch the dreaming sea
   With isles like flowers against her breast,
  Only one voice in all the world
   Could give me rest.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 15, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

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