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Love Songs
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1928. Teasdale's work has always been characterized by its simplicity and clarity, her use of classical forms, and her passionate and romantic subject matter. In 1918, she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize (which became the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the Poetry Society of America Prize for Love Songs. She later committed suicide. In addition to new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from Rivers to the Sea, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, and one or two from an earlier volume. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. 

Fluent, straightforward, constant, reflective. Sara Teasdale's poems croon and radiate passion.
 
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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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    Love Songs - Sara Teasdale

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale

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    Title: Love Songs

    Author: Sara Teasdale

    Posting Date: July 21, 2008 [EBook #442] Release Date: February, 1996

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE SONGS ***

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

    [Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Two italicized lines are marked by asterisks (*). Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces.]

    [This etext was transcribed from a 1918 reprinting of the 1917 edition, which was the original. It is interesting that some of those poems included from earlier volumes have been slightly changed in this book.]

    Love Songs

    By

    Sara Teasdale

    [American (Missouri & New York) poet, 1884-1933.]

    Author of Rivers to the Sea, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Etc.

    To E.

         I have remembered beauty in the night,

          Against black silences I waked to see

          A shower of sunlight over Italy

         And green Ravello dreaming on her height;

         I have remembered music in the dark,

          The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,

          And running water singing on the rocks

         When once in English woods I heard a lark.

         But all remembered beauty is no more

          Than a vague prelude to the thought of you—

          You are the rarest soul I ever knew,

             Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;

         My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,

             And when I think of you, I am at rest.

    Prefatory Note

    Beside new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from Rivers to the Sea, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, and one or two from an earlier volume.

    Contents

    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

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