{"product_id":"book-dcw4","title":"Love Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Teasdale - the winner of one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the power and beauty of love, yet in her own life, love was not enough; she died by her own hand after a long illness. The man she may have loved more than any other, the poet Vachel Lindsay, killed himself two years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer poetry ranges a full gamut from utter joy to deep loneliness. She expresses herself with utter simplicity: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlowly over the earth\u003cbr\u003eThe wings of night are falling\u003cbr\u003e My heart like the bird in the tree\u003cbr\u003e Is calling... calling... calling....\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe can be wonderfully playful, telling a thrush to go call her lover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen he harkens what you say\u003cbr\u003e Bid him, lest he miss me\u003cbr\u003e Leave his work or leave his play\u003cbr\u003e And kiss me, kiss me, kiss me!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer soul valued beauty and love above all else: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOh, let me love with all my strength\u003cbr\u003eCareless if I am loved again.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike many of America's women poets, she is rather on the back shelf these days, but she deserves better. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnjoy this reading of her poetry!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Freshwater Seas production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Findaway World, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49446233997616,"sku":"BDdcw4","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/498365-dcw4-Square.jpg?v=1736709573","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dcw4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}