Love Songs

by Sara Teasdale from 1917

About

Teasdale's Love Songs (1917) is her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and her most concentrated achievement: short lyric poems of love, longing, and loss in which formal precision and emotional directness combine to remarkable effect. Poems like 'I shall not care' and 'There Will Come Soft Rains' have entered the permanent repertoire of American poetry. The collection's focus makes it ideal for themed readings — a single evening exploring love's many faces through a poet of consummate lyric craft.

Love Songs

Words
6.3k
Duration
~47 min

68 sections

6.3k words
#TitleWords
1
1781:20
2
Barter
710:32
3
Jewels
240:11
4
The Flight
490:22
5
A November Night
20:01
6
Barter
1110:50
7
Twilight
420:19
8
Night Song at Amalfi
580:26
9
The Look
420:19
10
A Winter Night
780:35
11
A Cry
510:23
12
Gifts
450:20
13
But Not to Me
460:21
14
Song at Capri
490:22
15
Child, Child
880:40
16
Love Me
480:22
17
Pierrot
580:26
18
Wild Asters
380:17
19
The Song for Colin
440:20
20
Four Winds
910:41
21
Debt
460:21
22
Faults
450:20
23
Buried Love
900:41
24
The Fountain
1010:45
25
I Shall Not Care
520:23
26
After Parting
580:26
27
A Prayer
550:25
28
Spring Night
1461:06
29
May Wind
730:33
30
Tides
540:24
31
After Love
720:32
32
New Love and Old
700:32
33
The Kiss
490:22
34
Swans
780:35
35
The River
770:35
36
November
540:24
37
Spring Rain
1200:54
38
The Ghost
1581:11
39
Summer Night, Riverside
1210:54
40
Jewels
5934:27
41
The Flight
910:41
42
Dew
690:31
43
To-night
470:21
44
Ebb Tide
720:32
45
I Would Live in Your Love
580:26
46
Because
980:44
47
The Tree of Song
650:29
48
The Giver
530:24
49
April Song
590:27
50
The Wanderer
1060:48
51
The Years
860:39
52
Enough
570:26
53
Come
630:28
54
Joy
620:28
55
Riches
540:24
56
Dusk in War Time
640:29
57
Peace
670:30
58
Moods
470:21
59
Houses of Dreams
870:39
60
Lights
2011:30
61
Doubt
580:26
62
The Wind
500:23
63
Morning
580:26
64
Other Men
680:31
65
Embers
840:38
66
Message
440:20
67
The Lamp
660:30
68
A November Night
1.1k8:02