Download The Poetry of Sara Teasdale: Love Songs AudioBook Free
Sara Teasdale - the winner of 1 of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the energy and beauty of love. Yet in her own life, love had not been enough; she died by her own hand after an extended illness. The person she may have loved more than every other, the poet Vachel Lindsay, had killed himself 2 yrs earlier. Teasdale's poetry ranges from utter joy to deep loneliness. She expresses herself with utter simplicity: Slowly over the planet earth
The wings of night are falling
My heart like the bird in the tree
Is calling... calling... calling.... She can be wonderfully playful, telling a thrush to move call her lover: When he harkens what you say
Bid him, lest he miss me
Leave his work or leave his play
And kiss me, kiss me, kiss me! Her soul valued beauty and love most of all: Oh, i want to love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again. Like many of America's women poets, she is rather on the trunk shelf these days, but she deserves better. Enjoy this reading of her poetry!
