“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

"Helen of Troy"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

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American writer and poet 1884–1933

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