There Will Come Soft Rain – Full Text Of Poem By Sara Teasdale
THERE WILL COME SOFT RAIN – We are going to read the full text of the poem There Will Come Soft Rain which was written by Sara Teasdale.
As mentioned above, it was written by American poet Sara Teasdale. She was born to a wealthy family in Missouri in 1884.
It is a 12-line poem which was first published in the July 1918 issue of Harper’s Magazine. This was also included in her 1920 collection called Flame and Shadow.
This poem imagines reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished. This also implies the idea of human extinction by war. This was not a commonplace idea untl the invention of nuclear weapons, which is 25 years after this poem was published.
Here is the full text of the poem uplifted from Medium:
There will come soft rain 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.
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