Poem by Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale wrote the poem There Will Come Soft Rains. It was written in 1920, shortly after the end of World War 1. Here is the poem:

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.

Sara Teasdale's poem consists of twelve verses written in six rhyming couplets. It has many references to nature such as soft rains, plum trees, robins and swallows. The poem tells the reader that even if mankind is destroyed in war, nature will always triumph.