The Song Maker - A Collection of Poems

William Lyon Phelps, Sara Teasdale

Description

“The Song Maker” is a brand new collection of poetry by American lyric poet Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). Featuring her famous "Love Songs" collection alongside "Rivers to the Sea". Teasdale produced numerous volumes of poetry in her career, most of which were both well received critically and economically successful. She was awarded the Pulitzer Price for her poetry collection “Love Songs” in 1917, which was the first of its kind. A fantastic collection of timeless poems not to be missed by poetry lovers of all ages. Contents include: “Helen of Troy and Other Poems”, “Rivers to the Sea”, “Love Songs”, and “Flame and Shadow”. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand-new collection of classic poetry complete with an introductory excerpt by William Lyon Phelps.

Sujets

• Pocket Books
• List of female poets

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 08 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528791335
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

THE SONG MAKER
A COLLECTION OF POEMS
By
SARA TEASDALE
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY EXCERPT BY WILLIAM LYON PHELPS





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Contents
SA RA TEASDALE By William Lyon Phelps
HELEN OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS
H ELEN OF TROY
BEATRICE
SAPPHO
MARIANNA ALCOFORANDO
GUENEVERE
ERINNA
LOVE SONGS
SONG
THE ROSE AND THE BEE
TH E SONG MAKER
WILD ASTERS
WH EN LOVE GOES
THE WAYFARER
THE PRINCESS IN THE TOWER
WHEN L OVE WAS BORN
THE SHRINE
THE BLIND
LOVE ME
THE SO NG FOR COLIN
FOUR WINDS
ROUNDEL
DEW
A MAIDEN
"I LOVE YOU"
B UT NOT TO ME
HIDDEN LOVE
SNOW SONG
YOUTH AND THE PILGRIM
THE WANDERER
I WOULD LIVE IN YOUR LOVE
MAY
RISPETTO
LESS THAN THE CLOUD TO THE WIND
BURIED LOVE
SONG
PIERROT
AT NIGHT
SONG
LO VE IN AUTUMN
THE KISS
NOVEMBER
A SONG OF THE PRINCESS
THE WIND
A WINTER NIGHT
THE METROP OLITAN TOWER
G RAMERCY PARK
IN THE METROPO LITAN MUSEUM
CONEY ISLAND
UNION SQUARE
CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK
YOUNG LOVE
SONNETS AND LYRICS
P RIMAVERA MIA
SOUL'S BIRTH
LO VE AND DEATH
FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN KEATS' DEATH
SILENCE
THE RETURN
FEAR
ANADYOMENE
GALAHAD IN THE CASTLE OF THE MAIDENS
TO AN AEOLIAN HARP
TO ERINNA
TO CLEIS
PAR IS IN SPRING
MADEIRA FROM THE SEA
CI TY VIGNETTES
BY THE SEA
ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE
TRIOLETS
VOX CORPORIS
A BALLAD OF TWO KNIGHTS
CHR ISTMAS CAROL
THE FAERY FOREST
A FANTASY
A MINUET OF MOZART'S
TWILIGHT
THE PRAYER
TWO SONGS FOR A CHILD
ON THE TOWER
RIVERS TO THE SEA
PART I
SPRING NIGHT
THE FLIGHT
NEW LOVE AND OLD
THE LOOK
SPRING
THE LI GHTED WINDOW
THE KISS
SWANS
THE OLD MAID
FROM THE WOO LWORTH TOWER
AT NIGHT
THE YEARS
PEACE
APRIL
COME
MOODS
APRIL SONG
MAY DAY
CROWNED
TO A CA STILIAN SONG
BROADWAY
A WI NTER BLUEJAY
IN A RESTAURANT
JOY
IN A RAIL ROAD STATION
IN THE TRAIN
TO ONE AWAY
SONG
DEEP IN THE NIGHT
THE INDIA WHARF
I SH ALL NOT CARE
DESERT POOLS
LONGING
PITY
ENOUGH
ALCHEMY
FEBRUARY
MORNING
MAY NIGHT
DUSK IN JUNE
LOVE-FREE
SUMMER NIGH T, RIVERSIDE
IN A SU BWAY STATION
AFTER LOVE
DO ORYARD ROSES
A PRAYER
PART II
I NDIAN SUMMER
THE SEA WIND
THE CLOUD
TH E POOR HOUSE
NEW YEAR'S D AWN—BROADWAY
THE STAR
DOCTORS
THE INN OF EARTH
IN THE CARP ENTER'S SHOP
THE CAR PENTER'S SON
THE MOTH ER OF A POET
IN MEMOR IAM F. O. S.
TWILIGHT
SW ALLOW FLIGHT
THOUGHTS
TO DICK, ON HIS SI XTH BIRTHDAY
TO ROSE
THE FOUNTAIN
THE ROSE
DREAMS
"I AM NOT YOURS "
PI ERROT'S SONG
NIGH T IN ARIZONA
DUSK IN WAR TIME
SPRING IN WAR TIME
WHILE I MAY
DEBT
FR OM THE NORTH
THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK
SEA LONGING
THE RIVER
LEAVES
THE ANSWER
PART III
OV ER THE ROOFS
A CRY
CHANCE
IMMORTAL
AFTER DEATH
TESTAMENT
GIFTS
PART IV
FROM THE SEA
VIGNET TES OVERSEAS
PART V
SAPPHO
LOVE SONGS
PART I
BARTER
CHILD, CHILD
FAULTS
A FTER PARTING
TIDES
AFTER LOVE
SPRING RAIN
THE GHOST
JEWELS
PART II INTERLUDE: SONGS OUT OF SORROW
I SP IRIT'S HOUSE
II MASTERY
III LESSONS
IV WISDOM
V IN A BU RYING GROUND
VI WOOD SONG
VII REFUGE
PART III
DEW
TO-NIGHT
EBB TIDE
BECAUSE
THE TREE OF SONG
RICHES
HOUS ES OF DREAMS
LIGHTS
DOUBT
OTHER MEN
EMBERS
THE LAMP
PART IV
A NO VEMBER NIGHT
FLAME AND SHADOW
PART I
BLUE SQUILLS
STARS
"WHAT DO I CARE?"
MEADOWLARKS
DRIFTWOOD
"I HAVE LOVED H OURS AT SEA"
AUG UST MOONRISE
PART II MEMORIES
PLACES
OLD TUNES
"ON LY IN SLEEP"
REDBIRDS
SUNSE T: ST. LOUIS
THE COIN
THE VOICE
PART III
D AY AND NIGHT
COMPENSATION
I REMEMBERED
"OH YOU ARE COMING"
THE RETURN
GRAY EYES
THE NET
THE MYSTERY
PART IV IN A HOSPITAL
OPEN WINDOWS
THE NEW MOON
E IGHT O'CLOCK
LOST THINGS
PAIN
THE BROKEN FIELD
THE UNSEEN
A PRAYER
PART V
SPR ING TORRENTS
"I KNO W THE STARS"
U NDERSTANDING
NIGHTFALL
"IT IS NOT A WORD"
"MY HEA RT IS HEAVY"
THE NIG HTS REMEMBER
"LET IT B E FORGOTTEN"
PART VI THE DARK CUP
MAY DAY
"SINCE THERE I S NO ESCAPE"
"THE DREAMS OF MY HEART"
"A L ITTLE WHILE"
THE GARDEN
THE WINE
IN A CUBAN GARDEN
"I F I MUST GO"
PART VII
IN SPRING, S ANTA BARBARA
WHITE FOG
ARCTURUS
MOONLIGHT
MORNING SONG
GRAY FOG
BELLS
L OVELY CHANCE
PART VIII
"THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS"
IN A GARDEN
NAHANT
WINTER STARS
A BOY
WINTER DUSK
PART IX BY THE SEA
TH E UNCHANGING
JUNE NIGHT
"LIKE BAR LEY BENDING"
"OH DAY OF F IRE AND SUN"
"I THO UGHT OF YOU"
ON THE DUNES
SPRAY
IF D EATH IS KIND
PART X
THOUGHTS
FACES
EVENI NG: NEW YORK
SNOWFALL
THE S ILENT BATTLE
T HE SANCTUARY
AT SEA
DUST
T HE LONG HILL
PART XI
SUMMER STORM
IN THE END
"IT WILL NOT CHANGE"
CHANGE
WATER LILIES
"DID YOU NEVER KNOW?"
THE TREASURE
THE STORM
PART XII SONGS FOR MYSELF
THE TREE
AT MIDNIGHT
SONG MAKING
ALONE
RED MAPLES
DEBTOR
THE WIND IN THE HEMLOCK



SARA TEASDALE
By William Lyon Phelps
Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Filsinger) was born at St. Louis (pronounced Lewis), on the eighth of August, 1884. Her first book appeared when she was twenty-three, and made an impression. In 1911 she published Helen of Troy, and Other Poems ; in 1915 a volume of original lyrics called Rivers to the Sea ; some of these were reprinted, together with new material, in Love Poems (1917), which also contained Songs out of Sorrow —verses that won the prize offered by the Poetry Society of America for the best unpublished work read at the meetings in 1916; and in 1918 she received the Columbia University Poetry Prize of five hundred dollars, for the best book produced by an Ameri can in 1917.
In spite of her youth and the slender amount of her production, Sara Teasdale has won her way to the front rank of living American poets. She is among the happy few who not only know what they wish to accomplish, but who succeed in the attempt. How many manuscripts she burns, I know not; but the comparatively small number of pages that reach the world are nearly fleckless. Her career is beginning, but her work shows a combination of strength and grace that many a master might envy. It would be an insult to call her poems "promising," for most of them exhibit a consummate control of the art of lyrical expression. Give her more years, more experience, wider range, richer content, her architecture may become as massive as it is fine. She thoroughly understands the manipulation of the material of poetry.
Although she gives us many beautiful pictures of nature, she is primarily a poet of love. White-hot passion without a trace of anything common or unclean; absolute surrender; whole-hearted devotion expressed in pure singing. Nothing is finer than this—to realize that the primal impulse is as strong as in the breast of a cave-woman, yet illumined by clear, high intelligence, and pouring out its feeling in a voice of gra cious charm.
An E xcerpt from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth C entury, 1918




HELEN OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS
First published in 1911


HELEN OF TROY
Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn
The flames' red wings soar upward duskily.
This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead
That sparkled so the day I saw it first,
And darkened slowly after. I am she
Who loves all beauty—yet I wither it.
Why have the high gods made me wreak their wrath—
Forever since m