(August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933 / Missouri / United States)

poet Sara Teasdale
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There Will Come Soft Rains

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003


Read poems about / on: war, spring, tree, fire, night, frog, rain

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  • Keith S (4/10/2013 2:55:00 PM)

    We read this in class in the late 60s and I never forgot it. It comes back to me in times of personal distress or difficult times. I also think of it as the threat of some potential nuclear attack - North Korea 2013 comes to mind.
    One of, if not my favorite, poem...

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  • Ray Quesada (10/7/2012 3:48:00 AM)

    This is one of my favorite poems of all time. the first time i read it, i knew that whoever wrote it shred a birthday with me...i absolutely had no doubt somehow. so i looked it up on wikipedia, and sure enough, it was Teasdale, and sure enough she was born on the same day as i was, August 8th,102 years before i was born to the day. i only have a few of my poems on here, but alot of my lyric verse has a quality to it similar to teasdale, some family members have suggested to me. spooky sort of...

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  • Assorted Thoughts (12/26/2009 5:51:00 PM)

    There is simplistic, raw beauty in Sara’s works. Not much revision. Just off the cuff thoughts that flow.

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  • Jesse Holroyd (8/27/2009 12:57:00 AM)

    This poem was recited in the story, There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury. The story was of a fully automated house that was the sole survivor of a nuclear blast. It matched the poem perfectly!

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  • Janelle Morehart (2/18/2008 7:34:00 PM)

    I read this with a short story in 8th grade. the story was called There Will Come Soft Rains. And Man did I fall in love with it! ! ! Such a great poem, its the absolute best. Sara Teasdale is my idol haha

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  • Indigo Hawkins (2/15/2008 4:33:00 PM)

    I read this in seventh grade, and it blew me away...there's a loveliness in the motion of it, in contrast to its warning...which makes it so poignant.

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