Fantastic shapes in vivid blue. About this poem: “A Winter Bluejay” was published in Sara Teasdale’s book “Rivers to the Sea” (The Macmillan Company, 1915). About Sara Teasdale: Sara Teasdale was born ...

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) was a poet of sensibility, in the early-19th-century sense of that word. As Jane Austen uses it in “Sense and Sensibility” to define the character of Marianne Dashwood, the ...