These four songs, composed in 1928, are settings of poems by Sara Teasdale published in 1924. Poetry, a Magazine of Verse, founded and edited by Harriet Monroe, was perhaps the most influential publication of its type in America. These four poems appeared in volume XXIV, no. 1, on pages 1, 2, and 4. Bennett’s settings were premiered as part of a 1 March 1931 New York concert of music by six Americans sponsored by the League of Composers. Radiana Pazmor, a singer who was becoming well-known as a ...