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    Helen of Troy, and Other Poems
    Helen of Troy, and Other Poems
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    Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

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    "Helen of Troy and Other Poems" from Sara Teasdale. American lyrical poet (1884-1933).

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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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      Helen of Troy, and Other Poems - Sara Teasdale

      Project Gutenberg's Helen of Troy and Other Poems, by Sara Teasdale

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Helen of Troy and Other Poems

      Author: Sara Teasdale

      Posting Date: July 20, 2008 [EBook #400] Release Date: January, 1996

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HELEN OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS ***

      Produced by A. Light and L. Bowser. For Gwenette.

      [Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors may be corrected.]

      [This etext has been transcribed from the original edition, which was published in New York in 1911.]

      Helen of Troy And Other Poems

      By

      Sara Teasdale

      [American (Missouri & New York) Poet]

      Author of Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems

      To Marion Cummings Stanley

      Contents

      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 Aeolian Harp

         To Erinna

         To Cleis

         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 Faery Forest

         A Fantasy

         A Minuet of Mozart's

         Twilight

         The Prayer

         Two Songs for a Child

      On the Tower

      Helen of Troy and Other Poems

      Helen of Troy

      Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn

      The flames' red wings soar upward duskily.

      This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead

      That sparkled so the day I saw it first,

      And darkened slowly after. I am she

      Who loves all beauty—yet I wither it.

      Why have the high gods made me wreak their wrath—

      Forever since my maidenhood to sow

      Sorrow and blood about me? Lo, they keep

      Their bitter care above me even now.

      It was the gods who led me to this lair,

      That tho' the burning winds should make me weak,

      They should not snatch the life from out my lips.

      Olympus let the other women die;

      They shall be quiet when the day is done

      And have no care to-morrow. Yet for me

      There is no rest. The gods are not so kind

      To her made half immortal like themselves.

      It is to you I owe the cruel gift,

      Leda, my mother, and the Swan, my sire,

      To you the beauty and to you the bale;

      For never woman born of man and maid

      Had wrought such havoc on the earth as I,

      Or troubled heaven with a sea of flame

      That climbed to touch the silent whirling stars

      And blotted out their brightness ere the dawn.

      Have I not made the world to weep enough?

      Give death to me. Yet life is more than death;

      How could I leave the sound of singing winds,

      The strong sweet scent that breathes from off the sea,

      Or shut my eyes forever to the spring?

      I will not give the grave my hands to hold,

      My shining hair to light oblivion.

      Have those who wander through the ways of death,

      The still wan fields Elysian, any love

      To lift their breasts with longing, any lips

      To thirst against the quiver of a kiss?

      Lo, I shall live to conquer Greece again,

      To make the people love, who hate me now.

      My dreams are over, I have ceased to cry

      Against the fate that made men love my mouth

      And left their spirits all too deaf to hear

      The little songs that echoed through my soul.

      I have no

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