About the author
Sara Teasdale was a Victorian era poet born on August 8, 1884. She died in 1933. Her poetry includes Love Songs, for which she was awarded the first Columbia Poetry Prize, which would later be named the Pullitzer.
A sample poem
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.
Final thoughts
Find more about her at the Poetry Foundation. Although her popularity faded with the changing times, her poetry is still beautiful and worth reading.