Love Songs (1917) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The
poet's fourth collection, for which she was awarded the 1918
Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating
on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory,
symbolic and grounded in experience, Love Songs revels in the
mystery of existence itself. From despair to elation, confusion to
security, Sara Teasdale captures the many emotions at work in the
hearts of lovers. In "November," she explores the strange feeling
that accompany a relationship nearing a mutual ending: "The world
is tired, the year is old, / The fading leaves are glad to die, /
The wind goes shivering with cold / Where the brown reeds are dry."
Beginning her brief verse with an observation of autumn, Teasdale
moves into a bittersweet stanza on love grown stagnant, mirroring
the world approaching winter: "Our love is dying like the grass, /
And we who kissed grow coldly kind, / Half glad to see our old love
pass / Like leaves along the wind." So far from spring, the only
thing certain is that these lovers must part ways. Refusing to
romanticize love, to portray it as wholly positive or negative, the
poet crafts a timeless collection on a timeless theme. For
Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection for flora and
fauna with a critical distance from human affairs, the belief in
the life of the world, with or without us, is enough. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Sara Teasdale's Love Songs is a classic work of
American poetry reimagined for modern readers.
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