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    The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Rivers to the Sea, Love Songs, and Flame and Shadow)
    The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Rivers to the Sea, Love Songs, and Flame and Shadow)
    The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Rivers to the Sea, Love Songs, and Flame and Shadow)
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    The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Rivers to the Sea, Love Songs, and Flame and Shadow)

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    Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) became one of the most praised lyric poets of the early twentieth century. In "The Collected Poems," five of Teasdale's books of poems are brought together, demonstrating her varied output. Teasdale examines love, loss, and death, all with a beautiful lyricism. Her poems range from the traditional to the experimental as she locates and transforms her poetic voice. Born and raised in St. Louis, Teasdale had fragile health until early adulthood. Upon publishing her first book of poems "Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems" (included in this edition), Teasdale experienced critical and commercial success. She moved to New York City in 1916 where she situated herself with the literary and intellectual communities of the day. Her poetic output continued with regularity though Teasdale experienced bouts of depression with increasing frequency. She would later commit suicide at the age of 48.
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    Release dateFeb 1, 2012
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    The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Rivers to the Sea, Love Songs, and Flame and Shadow)
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    Sara Teasdale

    Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Teasdale suffered from poor health as a child before entering school at the age of ten. In 1904, after graduating from Hosmer Hall, Teasdale joined the group of female artists known as The Potters, who published The Potter’s Wheel, a monthly literary and visual arts magazine, from 1904 to 1907. With her first two collections—Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (1907) and Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)—Teasdale earned a reputation as a gifted lyric poet from critics and readers alike. In 1916, following the publication of her bestselling Rivers to the Sea (1915), she moved to New York City with her husband Ernst Filsinger. There, she won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Love Songs (1917), her fourth collection. Frustrated with Filsinger’s prolonged absences while traveling for work, she divorced him in 1929 and moved to another apartment in the Upper West Side. Renewing her friendship with poet Vachel Lindsay, she continued to write and publish poems until her death by suicide in 1933.

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      The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Rivers to the Sea, Love Songs, and Flame and Shadow) - Sara Teasdale

      THE COLLECTED POEMS OF SARA TEASDALE

      (SONNETS TO DUSE AND OTHER POEMS, HELEN OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS, RIVERS TO THE SEA, LOVE SONGS, AND FLAME AND SHADOW)

      BY SARA TEASDALE

      A Digireads.com Book

      Digireads.com Publishing

      Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-4550-8

      Ebook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-4586-7

      This edition copyright © 2012

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      CONTENTS

      SONNETS TO DUSE AND OTHER POEMS

      SONNETS TO DUSE

      To Eleonora Duse

      To Eleonora Duse

      To Eleonora Duse in The Dead City

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse in The Dead City

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse in The Dead City

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse as Francesca da Rimini

      To a Picture of Eleanor Duse

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse with the Greek Fire, in Francesca da Rimini

      A Song to Eleonora Duse in Francesca da Rimini

      POEMS AND SONNETS

      To Japanese Incense

      To Sappho

      To Sappho

      To L. R. E.

      The Meeting

      The Gift

      Dead Love

      The Love that Goes A-begging

      Song

      Wishes

      Dusk in Autumn

      In David's Child's Garden of Verses

      Triolets

      Sonnet

      Dream Song

      To Joy

      Roses and Rue

      The Heart's House

      The House of Dreams

      Faults

      HELEN OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS

      HELEN OF TROY

      BEATRICE

      SAPPHO

      MARIANNA ALCOFORANDO

      GUENEVERE

      ERINNA

      LOVE SONGS

      SONG

      THE ROSE AND THE BEE

      THE SONG MAKER

      WILD ASTERS

      WHEN LOVE GOES

      THE WAYFARER

      THE PRINCESS IN THE TOWER

      WHEN LOVE WAS BORN

      THE SHRINE

      THE BLIND

      LOVE ME

      THE SONG FOR COLIN

      FOUR WINDS

      ROUNDEL

      DEW

      A MAIDEN

      I LOVE YOU

      BUT NOT TO ME

      HIDDEN LOVE

      SNOW SONG

      YOUTH AND THE PILGRIM

      THE WANDERER

      I WOULD LIVE IN YOUR LOVE

      MAY

      RISPETTO

      LESS THAN THE CLOUD TO THE WIND

      BURIED LOVE

      SONG

      PIERROT

      AT NIGHT

      SONG

      LOVE IN AUTUMN

      THE KISS

      NOVEMBER

      A SONG OF THE PRINCESS

      THE WIND

      A WINTER NIGHT

      THE METROPOLITAN TOWER

      GRAMERCY PARK

      IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

      CONEY ISLAND

      UNION SQUARE

      CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK

      YOUNG LOVE

      SONNETS AND LYRICS

      PRIMAVERA MIA

      SOUL'S BIRTH

      LOVE AND DEATH

      FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN KEATS' DEATH

      SILENCE

      THE RETURN

      FEAR

      ANADYOMENE

      GALAHAD IN THE CASTLE OF THE MAIDENS

      TO AN ÆOLIAN HARP

      TO ERINNA

      TO CLEÏS

      PARIS IN SPRING

      MADEIRA FROM THE SEA

      CITY VIGNETTES

      BY THE SEA

      ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE

      TRIOLETS

      VOX CORPORIS

      A BALLAD OF TWO KNIGHTS

      CHRISTMAS CAROL

      THE FAËRY FOREST

      A FANTASY

      A MINUET OF MOZART'S

      TWILIGHT

      THE PRAYER

      TWO SONGS FOR A CHILD

      ON THE TOWER

      ON THE TOWER

      RIVERS TO THE SEA

      I

      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

      MAY DAY

      CROWNED

      TO A CASTILIAN SONG

      BROADWAY

      A WINTER BLUEJAY

      IN A RESTAURANT

      JOY

      IN A RAILROAD STATION

      IN THE TRAIN

      TO ONE AWAY

      SONG

      DEEP IN THE NIGHT

      THE INDIA WHARF

      I SHALL NOT CARE

      DESERT POOLS

      LONGING

      PITY

      AFTER PARTING

      ENOUGH

      ALCHEMY

      FEBRUARY

      MORNING

      MAY NIGHT

      DUSK IN JUNE

      LOVE-FREE

      SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE

      IN A SUBWAY STATION

      AFTER LOVE

      DOORYARD ROSES

      A PRAYER

      II

      INDIAN SUMMER

      THE SEA WIND

      THE CLOUD

      THE POOR HOUSE

      NEW YEAR'S DAWN—BROADWAY

      THE STAR

      DOCTORS

      THE INN OF EARTH

      IN THE CARPENTER'S SHOP

      THE CARPENTER'S SON

      THE MOTHER OF A POET

      IN MEMORIAM F. O. S.

      TWILIGHT

      SWALLOW FLIGHT

      THOUGHTS

      TO DICK, ON HIS SIXTH BIRTHDAY

      TO ROSE

      THE FOUNTAIN

      THE ROSE

      DREAMS

      I AM NOT YOURS

      PIERROT'S SONG

      NIGHT IN ARIZONA

      DUSK IN WAR TIME

      SPRING IN WAR TIME

      WHILE I MAY

      DEBT

      FROM THE NORTH

      THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK

      SEA LONGING

      THE RIVER

      LEAVES

      THE ANSWER

      III

      OVER THE ROOFS

      A CRY

      CHANCE

      IMMORTAL

      AFTER DEATH

      TESTAMENT

      GIFTS

      IV

      FROM THE SEA

      VIGNETTES OVERSEAS

      V

      SAPPHO

      LOVE SONGS

      I

      BARTER

      TWILIGHT

      NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI

      THE LOOK

      A WINTER NIGHT

      A CRY

      GIFTS

      BUT NOT TO ME

      SONG AT CAPRI

      CHILD, CHILD

      LOVE ME

      PIERROT

      WILD ASTERS

      THE SONG FOR COLIN

      FOUR WINDS

      DEBT

      FAULTS

      BURIED LOVE

      THE FOUNTAIN

      I SHALL NOT CARE

      AFTER PARTING

      A PRAYER

      SPRING NIGHT

      MAY WIND

      TIDES

      AFTER LOVE

      NEW LOVE AND OLD

      THE KISS

      SWANS

      THE RIVER

      NOVEMBER

      SPRING RAIN

      THE GHOST

      SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE

      JEWELS

      II

      INTERLUDE: SONGS OUT OF SORROW

      I. SPIRIT'S HOUSE

      II. MASTERY

      III. LESSONS

      IV. WISDOM

      V. IN A BURYING GROUND

      VI. WOOD SONG

      VII. REFUGE

      III

      THE FLIGHT

      DEW

      TO-NIGHT

      EBB TIDE

      I WOULD LIVE IN YOUR LOVE

      BECAUSE

      THE TREE OF SONG

      THE GIVER

      APRIL SONG

      THE WANDERER

      THE YEARS

      ENOUGH

      COME

      JOY

      RICHES

      DUSK IN WAR TIME

      PEACE

      MOODS

      HOUSES OF DREAMS

      LIGHTS

      I AM NOT YOURS

      DOUBT

      THE WIND

      MORNING

      OTHER MEN

      EMBERS

      MESSAGE

      THE LAMP

      IV

      A NOVEMBER NIGHT

      FLAME AND SHADOW

      I

      BLUE SQUILLS

      STARS

      WHAT DO I CARE?

      MEADOWLARKS

      DRIFTWOOD

      I HAVE LOVED HOURS AT SEA

      AUGUST MOONRISE

      MEMORIES

      II

      PLACES

      OLD TUNES

      ONLY IN SLEEP

      REDBIRDS

      SUNSET: ST. LOUIS

      THE COIN

      THE VOICE

      III

      DAY AND NIGHT

      COMPENSATION

      I REMEMBERED

      OH YOU ARE COMING

      THE RETURN

      GRAY EYES

      THE NET

      THE MYSTERY

      IN A HOSPITAL

      IV

      OPEN WINDOWS

      THE NEW MOON

      EIGHT O'CLOCK

      LOST THINGS

      PAIN

      THE BROKEN FIELD

      THE UNSEEN

      A PRAYER

      V

      SPRING TORRENTS

      I KNOW THE STARS

      UNDERSTANDING

      NIGHTFALL

      IT IS NOT A WORD

      MY HEART IS HEAVY

      THE NIGHTS REMEMBER

      LET IT BE FORGOTTEN

      THE DARK CUP

      VI

      MAY DAY

      SINCE THERE IS NO ESCAPE

      THE DREAMS OF MY HEART

      A LITTLE WHILE

      THE GARDEN

      THE WINE

      IN A CUBAN GARDEN

      IF I MUST GO

      VII

      IN SPRING, SANTA BARBARA

      WHITE FOG

      ARCTURUS

      MOONLIGHT

      MORNING SONG

      GRAY FOG

      BELLS

      LOVELY CHANCE

      VIII

      THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS

      IN A GARDEN

      NAHANT

      WINTER STARS

      A BOY

      WINTER DUSK

      BY THE SEA

      IX

      THE UNCHANGING

      JUNE NIGHT

      LIKE BARLEY BENDING

      OH DAY OF FIRE AND SUN

      I THOUGHT OF YOU

      ON THE DUNES

      SPRAY

      IF DEATH IS KIND

      X

      THOUGHTS

      FACES

      EVENING: NEW YORK

      SNOWFALL

      THE SILENT BATTLE

      THE SANCTUARY

      AT SEA

      DUST

      THE LONG HILL

      XI

      SUMMER STORM

      IN THE END

      IT WILL NOT CHANGE

      CHANGE

      WATER LILIES

      DID YOU NEVER KNOW?

      THE TREASURE

      THE STORM

      SONGS FOR MYSELF

      XII

      THE TREE

      AT MIDNIGHT

      SONG MAKING

      ALONE

      RED MAPLES

      DEBTOR

      THE WIND IN THE HEMLOCK

      SONNETS TO DUSE AND OTHER POEMS

      SONNETS TO DUSE

      To Eleonora Duse

      Oh beauty that is filled so full of tears,

      Where every passing anguish left its trace,

      I pray you grant to me this depth of grace:

      That I may see before it disappears,

      Blown through the gateway of our hopes and fears

      To death's insatiable last embrace,

      The glory and the sadness of your face,

      Its longing unappeased through all the years.

      No bitterness beneath your sorrow clings;

      Within the wild dark falling of your hair

      There lies a strength that ever soars and sings;

      Your mouth's mute weariness is not despair.

      Perhaps among us craven earth-born things

      God loves its silence better than a prayer.

      To Eleonora Duse

      Your beauty lives in mystic melodies,

      And all the light about you breathes a song.

      Your voice awakes the dreaming airs that throng

      Within our music-haunted memories.

      The sirens' strain that sank within the seas

      When men forgot to listen, floats along

      Your voice's undercurrent soft and strong.

      Sicilian shepherds pipe beneath the trees;

      Along the purple hills of drifted sand,

      A lone Egyptian plays an ancient flute;

      At dawn the Memnon gives his old salute

      Beside the Nile, by desert breezes fanned.

      The music faints about you as you stand,

      And with the Orphean lay it trembles mute.

      To Eleonora Duse in The Dead City

      Were you a Greek when all the world was young,

      Before the weary years that pass and pass,

      Had scattered all the temples on the grass,

      Before the moss to marble columns clung?

      I think your snowy tunic must have hung

      As now your gown does—wave on wave a mass

      Of woven water. As within a glass

      I see your face when Homer's tales were sung.

      Alcaeus kissed your mouth and found it sweet,

      And Sappho's hand has lingered in your hand.

      You half remember Lesbos as you stand

      Where all the times and countries mix and meet,

      And lay your weight of beauty at our feet,

      A garland gathered in a distant land.

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse in The Dead City

      Your face is set against a fervent sky,

      Before the thirsty hills that sevenfold

      Return the sun's hot glory, gold on gold,

      Where Agamemnon and Cassandra lie.

      Your eyes are blind whose light shall never die,

      And all the tears the closed eyelids hold,

      And all the longing that the eyes have told,

      Is gathered in the lips that make no cry.

      Yea, like a flower within a desert place,

      Whose petals fold and fade for lack of rain,

      Are these, your eyes, where joy of sight was slain,

      And in the silence of your lifted face,

      The cloud is rent that hides a sleeping race,

      And vanished Grecian beauty lives again.

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse in The Dead City

      Carved in the silence by the hand of Pain,

      And made more perfect by the gift of Peace,

      Than if Delight had bid your sorrow cease,

      And brought the dawn to where the dark has lain,

      And set a smile upon your lips again;

      Oh strong and noble! Tho' your woes increase,

      The gods shall hear no crying for release,

      Nor see the tremble that your lips restrain.

      Alone as all the chosen are alone,

      Yet one with all the beauty of the past;

      A sister to the noblest that we know,

      The Venus carved in Melos long ago,

      Yea, speak to her, and at your lightest tone,

      Her lips will part and words will come at last.

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse as Francesca da Rimini

      Oh flower-sweet face and bended flower-like head!

      Oh violet whose purple cannot pale,

      Or forest fragrance ever faint or fail,

      Or breath and beauty pass among the dead!

      Yea, very truly has the poet said,

      No mist of years or might of death avail

      To darken beauty—brighter thro' the veil

      We see the glimmer of its-wings outspread.

      Oh face embowered and shadowed by thy hair,

      Some lotus blossom on a darkened stream!

      If ever I have pictured in a dream

      My guardian angel, she is like to this,

      Her eyes know joy, yet sorrow lingers there,

      And on her lips the shadow of a kiss.

      To a Picture of Eleanor Duse

      Was ever any face like this before—

      So light a veiling for the soul within,

      So pure and yet so pitiful for sin?

      They say the soul will pass the Heavy Door,

      And yearning upward, learn creation's lore—

      The body buried 'neath the earthly din.

      But thine shall live forever, it hath been

      So near the soul, and shall be evermore.

      Oh eyes that see so far thro' misted tears,

      Oh Death, behold, these eyes can never die!

      Yea, tho' your kiss shall rob these lips of breath,

      Their faint, sad smile will still elude thee, Death.

      Behold the perfect flower this neck uprears,

      And bow thy head and pass the wonder by.

      To a Picture of Eleonora Duse with the Greek Fire, in Francesca da Rimini

      Francesca's life that was a limpid flame

      Agleam against the shimmer of a sword,

      Which falling, quenched the flame in blood outpoured

      To free the house of Rimino from shame—

      Francesca's death that blazed aloft her name

      In guilty fadeless glory, hurling toward

      The windy darkness where the tempest roared,

      Her spirit burdened by the weight of blame—

      Francesca's life and death are mirrored here

      Forever, on the face of her who stands

      Illumined and intent beside the blaze,

      Grown one with it, and reading without fear

      That they shall fare upon the selfsame ways,

      Plucked forth and cast away by bloody hands.

      A Song to Eleonora Duse in Francesca da Rimini

      Oh would I were the roses, that lie against her

      hands,

      The heavy burning roses she touches as she

      stands!

      Dear hands that hold the roses, where mine

      would love to be,

      Oh leave, oh leave the roses, and hold the hands

      of

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