Thursday, January 1, 2004

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Rating: 3.4

I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
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Sara Teasdale
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Savita Tyagi 16 April 2023

So beautiful and so intense in its wordings.

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 14 April 2023

A beautiful and touching poem depicting eternal love. So brilliantly expressed and crafted

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Geeta Radhakrishna Menon 14 April 2023

Beauty in brevity

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Well done PoemHunter, by selecting this poem as the Poem Of The Day

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Dr Dillip K Swain 27 November 2021

A thousand miles it came, Sharp as a flash of light, My name, my name.....creates ripples! I like the rhythm of this sweet poem...5 stars.

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Unnikrishnan E S 27 November 2021

A very vociferously emotional poem. Underscores the beauty and excellence brevity can impart to poetry.

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Amar Agarwala 09 July 2016

Short and so beautiful... Sara gets full marks for this.

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Savita Tyagi 09 July 2016

Amazing! Simply overwhelming!

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Susan Williams 09 July 2016

So poignant, tearing at the heart with so few words. Again proving brevity has a powerful strength.

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Rajnish Manga 09 July 2016

Such an intense love can transcend any distance or obstacle in life. The poem reminds us of this reality. The fact can be evident more clearly under difficult circumstances.

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M Asim Nehal 09 July 2016

Short yet awesome, I see the effect of love...Thanks for sharing.10

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Edward Kofi Louis 09 July 2016

Love and dreams! With the beauty of life. Thanks for sharing.

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Abhipsa Panda 09 July 2016

so beautifully said about love

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Alem Hailu G/kristos 09 July 2016

It shows eternal love.Sara is good at lyric poems!

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Sandra Feldman 09 July 2016

This is a wonderfully sad but vivid poem of a love beyond death.. It reaches out and shrinks your heart, is deeply felt.

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Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

Missouri / United States
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