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Sara Teasdale

1884–1933

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) was an American lyric poet, born in St. Louis, Missouri, and later resident in New York City. Her early books, Sonnets to Duse (1907) and Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911), were followed by Rivers to the Sea (1915) and Love Songs (1917), the latter of which won the first Columbia University Poetry Society Prize, a forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Her work is known for its compressed, song-like short lyrics of love, solitude, nature and the passing of time, in plain diction and tight rhyme. She died in New York in 1933.

Poems (352)

  1. Spring Night
  2. The Flight
  3. New Love and Old
  4. The Look
  5. Spring
  6. The Lighted Window
  7. The Kiss
  8. Swans
  9. The Old Maid
  10. From the Woolworth Tower
  11. At Night
  12. The Years
  13. Peace
  14. April
  15. Come
  16. Moods
  17. April Song
  18. May Day
  19. Crowned
  20. To a Castilian Song
  21. Broadway
  22. A Winter Bluejay
  23. In a Restaurant
  24. Joy
  25. In a Railroad Station
  26. In the Train
  27. To One Away
  28. Song
  29. Deep in the Night
  30. The India Wharf
  31. I Shall Not Care
  32. Desert Pools
  33. Longing
  34. Pity
  35. After Parting
  36. Enough
  37. Alchemy
  38. February
  39. Morning
  40. May Night
  41. Dusk in June
  42. Love-Free
  43. Summer Night, Riverside
  44. In a Subway Station
  45. After Love
  46. Dooryard Roses
  47. A Prayer
  48. Indian Summer
  49. The Sea Wind
  50. The Cloud
  51. The Poor House
  52. New Year's Dawn—Broadway
  53. The Star
  54. Doctors
  55. The Inn of Earth
  56. In the Carpenter's Shop
  57. The Carpenter's Son
  58. The Mother of a Poet
  59. Rivers to the Sea
  60. In Memoriam F. O. S.
  61. Twilight
  62. Swallow Flight
  63. Thoughts
  64. To Dick, on His Sixth Birthday
  65. To Rose
  66. The Fountain
  67. The Rose
  68. Dreams
  69. "I Am Not Yours"
  70. Pierrot's Song
  71. Night in Arizona
  72. Dusk in War Time
  73. Spring in War Time
  74. While I May
  75. Debt
  76. From the North
  77. The Lights of New York
  78. Sea Longing
  79. The River
  80. Leaves
  81. The Answer
  82. Over the Roofs
  83. A Cry
  84. Chance
  85. Immortal
  86. After Death
  87. Testament
  88. Gifts
  89. From the Sea
  90. Vignettes Overseas
  91. Sappho
  92. To E.
  93. Barter
  94. Twilight
  95. Night Song at Amalfi
  96. A Winter Night
  97. But Not to Me
  98. Song at Capri
  99. Child, Child
  100. Love Me
  101. Pierrot
  102. Wild Asters
  103. The Song for Colin
  104. Four Winds
  105. Faults
  106. Buried Love
  107. May Wind
  108. Tides
  109. The Kiss
  110. November
  111. Spring Rain
  112. The Ghost
  113. Jewels
  114. Spirit's House
  115. Mastery
  116. Lessons
  117. Wisdom
  118. In a Burying Ground
  119. Wood Song
  120. Refuge
  121. Dew
  122. To-night
  123. Ebb Tide
  124. I Would Live in Your Love
  125. Because
  126. The Tree of Song
  127. The Giver
  128. The Wanderer
  129. Riches
  130. Houses of Dreams
  131. Lights
  132. Doubt
  133. The Wind
  134. Other Men
  135. Embers
  136. The Lamp
  137. A November Night
  138. The Long Hill
  139. Water Lilies
  140. Tired
  141. Helen of Troy
  142. Beatrice
  143. Sappho
  144. Marianna Alcoforando
  145. Guenevere
  146. Erinna
  147. The Rose and the Bee
  148. The Song Maker
  149. When Love Goes
  150. The Wayfarer
  151. The Princess in the Tower
  152. When Love Was Born
  153. The Shrine
  154. The Blind
  155. Roundel
  156. Dew
  157. A Maiden
  158. "I Love You"
  159. Hidden Love
  160. Snow Song
  161. Youth and the Pilgrim
  162. May
  163. Rispetto
  164. Less than the Cloud to the Wind
  165. Buried Love
  166. Song
  167. At Night
  168. Song
  169. Love in Autumn
  170. A Song of the Princess
  171. The Metropolitan Tower
  172. Gramercy Park
  173. In the Metropolitan Museum
  174. Coney Island
  175. Union Square
  176. Central Park at Dusk
  177. Young Love
  178. Primavera Mia
  179. Soul's Birth
  180. Love and Death
  181. For the Anniversary of John Keats' Death
  182. Silence
  183. The Return
  184. Fear
  185. Anadyomene
  186. Galahad in the Castle of the Maidens
  187. To an Aeolian Harp
  188. To Erinna
  189. To Cleis
  190. Paris in Spring
  191. Madeira from the Sea
  192. City Vignettes
  193. By the Sea
  194. On the Death of Swinburne
  195. Triolets
  196. Vox Corporis
  197. A Ballad of Two Knights
  198. Christmas Carol
  199. The Faery Forest
  200. A Fantasy
  201. A Minuet of Mozart's
  202. The Prayer
  203. Two Songs for a Child
  204. Blue Squills
  205. Stars
  206. "What Do I Care?"
  207. Meadowlarks
  208. Driftwood
  209. "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
  210. August Moonrise
  211. Places
  212. Old Tunes
  213. "Only in Sleep"
  214. Redbirds
  215. Sunset: St. Louis
  216. The Coin
  217. The Voice
  218. Day and Night
  219. Compensation
  220. I Remembered
  221. "Oh You Are Coming"
  222. The Return
  223. Gray Eyes
  224. The Net
  225. The Mystery
  226. Open Windows
  227. The New Moon
  228. Eight O'Clock
  229. Lost Things
  230. Pain
  231. The Broken Field
  232. The Unseen
  233. A Prayer
  234. Spring Torrents
  235. "I Know the Stars"
  236. Understanding
  237. Nightfall
  238. "It Is Not a Word"
  239. "My Heart Is Heavy"
  240. The Nights Remember
  241. "Let It Be Forgotten"
  242. May Day
  243. "Since There Is No Escape"
  244. "The Dreams of My Heart"
  245. "A Little While"
  246. The Garden
  247. The Wine
  248. In a Cuban Garden
  249. "If I Must Go"
  250. In Spring, Santa Barbara
  251. White Fog
  252. Arcturus
  253. Moonlight
  254. Morning Song
  255. Gray Fog
  256. Bells
  257. Lovely Chance
  258. "There Will Come Soft Rains"
  259. In a Garden
  260. Nahant
  261. Winter Stars
  262. A Boy
  263. Winter Dusk
  264. The Unchanging
  265. June Night
  266. "Like Barley Bending"
  267. "Oh Day of Fire and Sun"
  268. "I Thought of You"
  269. On the Dunes
  270. Spray
  271. If Death Is Kind
  272. Thoughts
  273. Faces
  274. Evening: New York
  275. Snowfall
  276. The Silent Battle
  277. The Sanctuary
  278. At Sea
  279. Dust
  280. Summer Storm
  281. In the End
  282. "It Will Not Change"
  283. Change
  284. "Did You Never Know?"
  285. The Treasure
  286. The Storm
  287. The Tree
  288. At Midnight
  289. Song Making
  290. Alone
  291. Red Maples
  292. Debtor
  293. The Wind in the Hemlock
  294. On the Sussex Downs
  295. August Night
  296. Two Minds
  297. Words for An Old Air
  298. Mountain Water
  299. At Tintagil
  300. “There Will Be Stars”
  301. Autumn
  302. September Day
  303. Fontainebleau
  304. Late October
  305. “Beautiful, Proud Sea”
  306. Land’s End
  307. Sand Drift
  308. Blue Stargrass
  309. September Night
  310. Low Tide
  311. Effigy of a Nun
  312. Those Who Love
  313. Epitaph
  314. Appraisal
  315. The Wise Woman
  316. “She Who Could Bind You”
  317. “So This Was All”
  318. Twilight
  319. Full Moon
  320. The Fountain
  321. Clear Evening
  322. Not by the Sea
  323. Midsummer Night
  324. The Crystal Gazer
  325. The Solitary
  326. Day’s Ending
  327. A Reply
  328. Leisure
  329. “I Shall Live to be Old”
  330. Wisdom
  331. The Old Enemy
  332. Winter Sun
  333. A December Day
  334. February Twilight
  335. “I Have Seen the Spring”
  336. Wind Elegy
  337. In the Wood
  338. Autumn Dusk
  339. Arcturus in Autumn
  340. “I Could Snatch a Day”
  341. An End
  342. Foreknown
  343. Winter
  344. Winter Night Song
  345. Never Again
  346. The Tune
  347. The Beloved
  348. “When I Am Not With You”
  349. Dedication
  350. On a March Day
  351. Let It Be You
  352. The Flight

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