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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 Wind
Death By Wind
by Gerald Stern
Four Winds
by April Bernard
Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
by T. S. Eliot
The Aerodynamics
by Rick Bursky
To the Roaring Wind
by Wallace Stevens
Windy Nights
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Four Winds

 
by Sara Teasdale

"Four winds blowing thro' the sky,
You have seen poor maidens die,
Tell me then what I shall do
That my lover may be true."
Said the wind from out the south,
"Lay no kiss upon his mouth,"
And the wind from out the west,
"Wound the heart within his breast,"
And the wind from out the east,
"Send him empty from the feast,"
And the wind from out the north,
"In the tempest thrust him forth,
When thou art more cruel than he,
Then will Love be kind to thee."



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