These four songs, composed in 1928, are settings of poems by Sara Teasdale published in 1924 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, founded and edited by Harriet Monroe, was perhaps the most influential publication of its type in America. Bennett's settings were premiered as part of a New York concert of music in 1931 by mezzo-soprano Radiana Pazmor, accompanied at the piano by the composer. The set of songs includes The Tune; I Could Snatch a Day; On the South Downs and An End.