English poetry Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale 

 1884 1933
 

Sara Teasdale was born on 8 August [884 in St. Louis, Missouri, and was educated at home and in private schools. Later she travelled extensively in the United States and abroad. In 1918, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a collection of poems entitled Love Songs. She lived the rest of her life only for her poetry and died on 29 January 1933 in New York.

 

Stars

 Alone in the night

On a dark hill

With pines around me

Spicy and still,

 

And a heaven full of stars

Over my head,

White and topaz

And misty red;

 

Myriads with beating

Hearts of fire

That aeons

Cannot vex or tie;