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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAIN IN THE NIGHT, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the night the general good rain
Last Line: God, send her back like rain to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Rain
First Line: Out in the night the general good rain
Last Line: God, send her back like rain to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Rain
OUT in the night the great good rain
Makes sweet the earth, makes strong the trees.
-- Let me be done myself with pain
And hot unhappy mysteries.
Let me not lie awake to-night
With dreams devouring all the gloom:
Wide mouths of hungry restless light
Gleaming and gaping round my room.
Dreams, from my soul's and body's stark
And hollow red-hot caves of fear.
(Oh, never a dream of leaves, a lark,
A dawn-wind, sea-tides salt and clear!)
-- Out in the night the good rain goes,
Kind as my Mother used to be. --
Oh, if in Heaven my Mother knows,
God, send her back like rain to me!
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