Barter Poem by Sara Teasdale

This is a fine piece to express, grab happiness while you can, for one hour's happiness is worth more than a lifetime of lonliness. Very touching, it is one of my favoirties of Sara Teasdale. Bonnie Collins

A delightfully skillful expression of sentiment in popular visions of nature and human sensitivities.

not up to Ms. Teasdale high standards. see: Thomas Love Beddoes, 'If there were dreams to sell...' and Emerson's 'Give all to love...' too deriative.

Another Amazing, Amazing poem by a Brilliant poet! words to live by 'Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. ' Loving this poem...so happy I read it today as I forgot about how great it really was! =Shelley=

Great poetic expression on life and it so marvelous.

I am now 90 years old and learned this poem in the 7th grade. I have never forgotten it and love it still.

We sang this in grade school. It helped form a life phylosophy. Stll loved at 88 years old

' Soaring fire that sways and sings, ' - best line. The arrangement of this is lovely. I love the imagery and metaphors, here. Great write. Xx NDS

She makes writing seem so easy that all you have to do is put a pen in your hand and beautiful words and images and wisdom will flow out onto the page as easy as water flows downhill.

She compares this kind of selling with a barter transaction.'Blue waves whitened on a cliff' make us think of purity, especially because the children are mentioned immediately after that. The cosmos has a perfect, eternal equilibrium. 'Loveliness' is a 'white singing ', the purity of voice necessary for peace. This poem is a pleading for love.Voted 10.