Sara Teasdale
Discover the life and poetry of Sara Teasdale, the Pulitzer-winning American poet whose delicate, musical verse explores love, beauty, and mortality.
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5 poems
sara teasdale
The Look
A two-quatrain gem in which the memory of a look proves stronger than any kiss.
There Will Come Soft Rains
Nature’s calm outlasts human conflict in Teasdale’s quietly devastating WWI-era lyric.
The Kiss
Fulfillment turns ambivalent in Teasdale’s eight-line lyric of longing and disillusion.
I Am Not Yours
Teasdale’s classic love lyric balancing the hunger to yield with the need to remain oneself.