Poet

Sara Teasdale

American poet · 1884–1933

There Will Come Soft RainsBarter

Sara Teasdale won the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1918. Her short lyrics — clear, musical, and emotionally exact — made her one of the best-selling poets of the early twentieth century.

"There Will Come Soft Rains," imagining nature's indifference after humanity destroys itself in war, later gave Ray Bradbury the title for one of his most famous stories.

4 poems by Sara Teasdale

Full text, free to read — all in the public domain.

BarterLife has loveliness to sell,…18 lines
I Shall Not CareTeasdale, Sara (1915), "I Shall Not Care" in Rivers to the Sea.…2 lines
The LookStrephon kissed me in the spring,…8 lines
"There Will Come Soft Rains"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,…12 lines