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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAINING, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The night I left my father said
Last Line: I'm thinking the old man was right.
First Line: The night I left my father said
Last Line: I'm thinking the old man was right.
The night I left my father said:
"You'll go and do some stupid thing.
You've no more sense in that fat head
Than Silly Billy Witterling.
"Not sense to come in when it rains --
Not sense enough for that, you've got.
You'll get a bullet through your brains,
Before you know, as like as not."
And now I'm lying in the trench
And shells and bullets through the night
Are raining in a steady drench,
I'm thinking the old man was right.
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