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Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 - January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914. Biography;easdale was born on August 8, 1884. She had poor health for much of her childhood, so she was home schooled until age 9. It was at age 10 that she was well enough to begin school. She started at Mary Institute in 1898, but switched to Hosmer Hall in 1899, graduating in 1903. The Teasdale family resided at 3668 Lindell Blvd. and then 38 Kingsbury Place in St. Louis, Missouri. Both homes were designed by Sara's mother. The house on Kingsbury Place had a private suite for Sara on the second floor. Guests entered through a separate entrance and were admitted by appointment. This suite is where Sara worked, slept, and often dined alone. From 1904 to 1907, Teasdale was a member of The Potters, led by Lillie Rose Ernst, a group of female artists in their late teens and early twenties who published, from 1904 to 1907, The Potter's Wheel a monthly artistic and literary magazine in St. Louis. Teasdale's first poem was published in William Marion Reedy's Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published that same year. Teasdale's second collection, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, was published in 1911. It was well received by critics, who praised its lyrical mastery and romantic subject matter. From 1911 to 1914 Teasdale was courted by several men, including the poet Vachel Lindsay, who was truly in love with her but did not feel that he could provide enough money or stability to keep her satisfied. She chose to marry Ernst Filsinger, a longtime admirer of her poetry, on December 19, 1914. Teasdale's third poetry collection, Rivers to the Sea, was published in 1915. It was and is a bestseller, being reprinted several times. In 1916 she and Filsinger moved to New York City, where they lived in an Upper West Side apartment on Central Park West. In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society"; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (inaugurated 1922). Filsinger's constant business travel caused Teasdale much loneliness. In 1929, she moved interstate for three months, thereby satisfying the criteria to gain a divorce. She did not wish to inform Filsinger, only doing so at her lawyers' insistence as the divorce was going through. Filsinger was shocked. After the divorce she moved only two blocks from her old home on Central Park West. She rekindled her friendship with Vachel Lindsay, who was now married with children. In 1933, she died by suicide, overdosing on sleeping pills. Lindsay had died by suicide two years earlier. She is interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

"Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing / Where the starlike sea gulls soar; / The sun was keen and the foam was blowing / High on the rocky shore." Capturing the sights and sounds of nature, Teasdale depicts the highs and lows of both love and the human experience. Love Songs is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

"What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at all?" Content to depict birdsong and "the silver light after a storm," Teasdale's poems elide the self in order to celebrate the creative powers of poem and world. Flame and Shadow is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

¿Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn / The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. / This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead¿¿ Voicing the thoughts of Helen, a woman blamed throughout history for the violence of men, Teasdale explores her guilt and legendary beauty. Helen of Troy and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

Love Songs by Sara Teasdale has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Rivers to the Sea (1915) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's third collection, published several years before she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Rivers to the Sea revels in the mystery of existence itself. "The park is filled with night and fog, / The veils are drawn about the world, / The drowsy lights along the paths / Are dim and pearled." "Spring Night," the collection's opening poem, begins in quiet reverie, its speaker appreciating the beauty and mystery of a silent world while suffering from heartache and uncertainty: "Oh, is it not enough to be / Here with this beauty over me? / My throat should ache with praise, and I / Should kneel in joy beneath the sky. / Oh, beauty are you not enough?" A lyric poet to her core, Teasdale explores the highs and lows of love in her own life and in the lives of strangers. Personal and communal, public and private, her work is a testament to a life spent in observance. For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs, the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's Rivers to the Sea is a classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.

¿Rivers to the Seä is a 1915 collection of poetry by American lyric poet Sara Teasdale (1884¿1933). Teasdale produced numerous volumes of poetry in her career, most of which were both well received critically and economically successful, and was the first person to be awarded the Pulitzer Price for a poetry collection in 1917. Her third poetry collection, ¿Rivers to the Seä was a bestseller and was reprinted numerous times since its first publication. A fantastic collection of timeless poems not to be missed by poetry lovers of all ages. Contents include: ¿Spring Night¿, ¿The Flight¿, ¿New Love and Old¿, ¿The Look¿, ¿Spring¿, ¿The Lighted Window¿, ¿The Kiss¿, ¿Swans¿, ¿The Old Maid¿, ¿From the Woolworth Tower¿, ¿At Night¿, ¿The Years¿, ¿Peace¿, ¿April¿, ¿Come¿, ¿Moods¿, ¿April Song¿ and more. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems¿ (1907), ¿Helen of Troy and Other Poems¿ (1911), and ¿Barter¿ (1918). Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand-new collection of classic poetry complete with an introductory excerpt by William Lyon Phelps.

Love Songs (1917) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet¿s fourth collection, for which she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Love Songs revels in the mystery of existence itself. From despair to elation, confusion to security, Sara Teasdale captures the many emotions at work in the hearts of lovers. In ¿November,¿ she explores the strange feeling that accompany a relationship nearing a mutual ending: ¿The world is tired, the year is old, / The fading leaves are glad to die, / The wind goes shivering with cold / Where the brown reeds are dry.¿ Beginning her brief verse with an observation of autumn, Teasdale moves into a bittersweet stanza on love grown stagnant, mirroring the world approaching winter: ¿Our love is dying like the grass, / And we who kissed grow coldly kind, / Half glad to see our old love pass / Like leaves along the wind.¿ So far from spring, the only thing certain is that these lovers must part ways. Refusing to romanticize love, to portray it as wholly positive or negative, the poet crafts a timeless collection on a timeless theme. For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs, the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale¿s Love Songs is a classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.