Rivers to the Sea (1915) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.
The poet's third collection, published several years before 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, Rivers to the
Sea revels in the mystery of existence itself. "The park is filled
with night and fog, / The veils are drawn about the world, / The
drowsy lights along the paths / Are dim and pearled." "Spring
Night," the collection's opening poem, begins in quiet reverie, its
speaker appreciating the beauty and mystery of a silent world while
suffering from heartache and uncertainty: "Oh, is it not enough to
be / Here with this beauty over me? / My throat should ache with
praise, and I / Should kneel in joy beneath the sky. / Oh, beauty
are you not enough?" A lyric poet to her core, Teasdale explores
the highs and lows of love in her own life and in the lives of
strangers. Personal and communal, public and private, her work is a
testament to a life spent in observance. 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 Rivers to the Sea is a classic work of American poetry
reimagined for modern readers.
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