Poetry Archives

A continuing selection of classic and contemporary poems.

Sara Teasdale

So soon my body will have gone
   Beyond the sound and sight of men,
And tho’ it wakes and suffers now,
   Its sleep will be unbroken then;
But oh, my frail immortal soul
   That will not sleep forevermore,
A leaf borne onward by the blast,
   A wave that never finds the shore.

Online text © 1998-2008 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From Rivers to the Sea | 1915

What are tags?
Tags, sometimes called “folksonomies,” are words that describe or categorize a poem, like “20th century modernism” or “Italian sonnet”. Tags can help you find poems that have something in common, based on how other people classify them.

« Previous