Alone
(2012)- Music by Joseph Turrin
- Text by Sara Teasdale
"Alone" is the first song of Joseph Turrin's song cycle Three Songs, which sets the poetry of Sara Teasdale.
Alone
by Sara Teasdale
I am alone, in spite of love,
In spite of all I take and give --
In spite of all your tenderness,
Sometimes I am not glad to live.
I am alone, as though I stood
On the highest peak of the tired gray world,
About me only swirling snow,
Above me, endless space unfurled;
With earth hidden and heaven hidden,
And only my own spirit's pride
To keep me from the peace of those
Who are not lonely, having died.
