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Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale
Born in 1884, Sara Trevor Teasdale's work was characterized by its simplicity and clarity and her use of classical forms...
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FURTHER READING
Poems about Beauty
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]
by John Keats
Muse & Drudge [just as I am I come]
by Harryette Mullen
Couture
by Mark Doty
Design for a Silver Box in the Shape of a Melon, 1918
by Jonathan Thirkield
It's obvious
by Greg Hewett
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
by Anne Sexton
The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh
by Carol Frost
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth
by David Rosenthal
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Faults  
by Sara Teasdale

They came to tell your faults to me,
They named them over one by one;
I laughed aloud when they were done,
I knew them all so well before,—
Oh, they were blind, too blind to see
Your faults had made me love you more.



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