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

    By Sara Teasdale

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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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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      Teasdale makes it look so easy. Her poems are so simple on the surface, but they reverberate down the years.

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    Helen of Troy and Other Poems - Sara Teasdale

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    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 ***

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    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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