| Timeline |
| 1884 |
Born 8 August in St. Louis |
| 1903 |
Graduates from Hosmer Hall, private school |
| 1905 |
Travels to Europe |
| 1907 |
Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems published |
| 1911 |
Helen of Troy, and Other Poems pubished |
| 1914 |
Marries Ernst B. Filsinger 19 December |
| 1915 |
Rivers to the Sea published |
| 1917 |
Love Songs published |
| 1918 |
Wins the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry)and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for Love Songs |
| 1920 |
Flame and Shadow published |
| 1926 |
Dark of the Moon published |
| 1929 |
Marriage ends in divorce |
| 1930 |
Stars To-night published |
| 1933 |
Strange Victory published |
| 1933 |
Commits suicide 29 January |
