Lyric Poem · Love
I Shall Not Care
by Sara Teasdale · 1915
Teasdale, Sara (1915), "I Shall Not Care" in Rivers to the Sea.
Teasdale, Sara (1917), "I Shall Not Care" in Love Songs.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- I Shall Not Care
- Poet
- Sara Teasdale
- Published
- 1915
- Length
- 2 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Love, Death & Loss, Sad
Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Sara Teasdale1884–1933
- Source record
- WikisourceI Shall Not Care by sara-teasdale, Wikisource transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1915
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 d8e552c14d59ea65…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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