Sara Teasdale. Spring Torrents. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Spring Torrents

By Sara Teasdale


From “Memories” WILL it always be like this until I am dead?
Every spring must I bear it all again—
With the first red haze of the budding maple boughs,
The first sweet-smelling rain?

Oh, I am like a rock in the rising river	5
Where the flooded water breaks with a low call,
Like a rock that knows the cry of the waters
And can not answer at all.