Sara Teasdale
Who is Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914.In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs.
Biography
Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884. She had poor health for much of her childhood, so she was home schooled until age 9. It was at age 10 that she was well enough to begin school. She started at Mary Institute in 1898, but switched to Hosmer Hall in 1899, graduating in 1903. The Teasdale family lived at 3668 Lindell Blvd. and then 38 Kingsbury Place in St. Louis, Missouri. Both homes were designed by Sara's mother. The house on Kingsbury Place had a private suite for Sar...
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Sara Teasdale Poems
- Sara Teasdale
Across the dimly lighted room
The violin drew wefts of sound,
Airily they wove and wound
And glimmered gold against the gloom.
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- It Is Not A Word Spoken
It is not a word spoken,
Few words are said;
Nor even a look of the eyes
Nor a bend of the head,
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- A Song To Eleonora Duse In "francesca Da Rimini "
Oh would I were the roses, that lie against her hands,
The heavy burning roses she touches as she stands!
Dear hands that hold the roses, where mine would love to be,
Oh leave, oh leave the roses, and hold the hands of me!
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- Did You Never Know
Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me,
That your love would never lessen and never go?
You were young then, proud and fresh-hearted,
You were too young to know.
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- To A Picture Of Eleonora Duse As "francesca Da Rimini"
Oh flower-sweet face and bended flower-like head!
Oh violet whose purple cannot pale,
Or forest fragrance ever faint or fail,
Or breath and beauty pass among the dead!
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- Followmechina: i make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes. ~sara teasdale
- Donaldh11469395: “ it is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”
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- Deytonbrewer: “there will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
and swallows circling with their shimmering sound…”
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- Followmechina: i make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes. ~sara teasdale
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