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SNOWFALL by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE CAN'T BE UNHAPPY, YOU SAID
Last Line: SMOTHERED IN SNOW.
Subject(s): SNOW;
"She can't be unhappy," you said,
"The smiles are like stars in her eyes,
And her laugh is thistledown
Around her low replies."
"Is she unhappy?" you said --
But who has ever known
Another's heartbreak --
All he can know is his own;
And she seems hushed to me,
As hushed as though
Her heart were a hunter's fire
Smothered in snow.



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