Love Songs: Poetry of Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale - the winner of one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the power and beauty of love, yet in her own life, love was not enough; she died by her own hand after a long illness. The man she may have loved more than any other, the poet Vachel Lindsay, killed himself two years earlier.

Her poetry ranges a full gamut from utter joy to deep loneliness. She expresses herself with utter si...