SARA TEASDALE

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• On August 8, 1884, Sara Trevor Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, into an old, established, and devout family. She was home-schooled until she was nine and traveled frequently to Chicago.

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• She became part of the circle surrounding Poetry magazine and Harriet Monroe. Teasdale published Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems in 1907.

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• Her second collection, Helen of Troy, and Other Poems, followed in 1911, and her third, Rivers to the Sea, in 1915.

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• She wrote many more poetry collections from 1918-1930
• In 1918 she won the she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize

DEATH

• She committed suicide on January 29 1933
• With pain killers and drugs in rage over sickness

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale

WHEN I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough,
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.

SARA TESDALE