"This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty — yet I wither it."
— Sara Teasdale

January 1, 1970

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SuicidesPulitzer Prize winnersWomen authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPeople from St. Louis
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