Sarah Teasdale
(1884-1933)
was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri. Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were well-known during the early 20th century. In 1918, she won the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, Love Songs. On the morning of January 29, 1933, in her New York City apartment, Teasdale took an overdose of sleeping pills, lay down in a warm bath, fell asleep, and never woke up again.

To the left, you can find four of the many Teasdale poems we excerpted for the lyrics on the record.

To see the complete poems of Sarah Teasdale,
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