There Will Come Soft Rains

by Sara Teasdale

　　

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Written in 1920, There Will Come Soft Rains, one of the best known poems by Teasdale, is a lyrical poem about resilience, nature cleaning up a field after a battle. The poem raises the idea that nature would not care all if mankind were to become extinct. It inspired Ray Bradbury's short story of the same name.

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Vincent van Gogh, Almond Blossom, 1890

　　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.

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There Will Come Soft Rains was featured as TheShort Story of the Day on Mon, Apr 25, 2022

　　

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Featured in our collection of World War I Literature, Poetry for Students, and 100 Great Poems.

　　The poem inspired Ray Bradbury to write a short story sharing the same title, "There Will Come Soft Rains".

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