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Poems of Sara Teasdale
Helen of Troy And Other Poems
By Sara Teasdale
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
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
Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended
a school
that was founded by the grandfather of another great poet from St.
Louis --
T. S. Eliot. She later associated herself more with New York City.
Her first book of poems was "Sonnets to Duse" (1907),
but "Helen of Troy" (1911) was the true launch of her career,
followed by "Rivers to the Sea" (1915), "Love Songs" (1917),
"Flame and Shadow" (1920) and more. Her final volume, "Strange Victory",
is considered by many to be predictive of her suicide.
It is interesting to note that in Teasdale's Collected Works,
about half of the poems in this volume -- some more justly than
others --
have been excluded, and most of the rest have been slightly changed.
Most of the poems from this volume which were selected to be included
in "Love Songs" also had some minor changes. This edition preserves
the original readings, but they are not to be considered authoritative.
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