Sara Teasdale

August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933 / Missouri / United States

Debt

What do I owe to you
Who loved me deep and long?
You never gave my spirit wings
Or gave my heart a song.

But oh, to him I loved
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.
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