Sara Teasdale's "A Prayer"

Here are Sara Teasdale's words, an American poet who wrote this prayer for her life and its relationship to the world. Her contemporary Robert Frost said that he had "A lover's quarrel with the world," and Teasdale expresses the same thought here. I set Teasdale's poem to music and sang it with my rough-hewn voice this week. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org