Love Songs

By Sara Teasdale

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Aug 15, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547170013

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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Sara Teasdale

Love Songs

EAN 8596547170013

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

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II

III

IV

I

Table of Contents

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

Love Songs

I

Barter

Life has loveliness to sell,

All beautiful and splendid things,

Blue waves whitened on a cliff,

Soaring fire that sways and sings,

And children's faces looking up

Holding wonder like a cup.

Life has loveliness to sell,

Music like a curve of gold,

Scent of pine trees in the rain,

Eyes that love you, arms that hold,

And for your spirit's still delight,

Holy thoughts that star the night.

Spend all you have for loveliness,

Buy it and never count the cost;

For one white singing hour of peace

Count many a year of strife well lost,

And for a breath of ecstasy

Give all