"RAIN and rain! and rain and rain!" Yesterday we muttered Grimly as the grim refrain That the thunders uttered: All the heavens under cloud -- All the sunshine sleeping; All the grasses limply bowed With their weight of weeping. Sigh and sigh! and sigh and sigh! Never end of sighing; Rain and rain for our reply -- Hopes half drowned and dying; Peering through the window-pane, Naught but endless raining -- Endless sighing, and, as vain, Endlessly complaining. Shine and shine! and shine and shine! Ah! to-day the splendor! -- All this glory yours and mine -- God! but God is tender! We to sigh instead of sing, @3Yesterday,@1 in sorrow, While the Lord was fashioning This for our To-morrow! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN INDIGNATION DINNER by JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS INDEPENDENCE by HENRY DAVID THOREAU PSALM 133 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE OLD JEW by MAXWELL BODENHEIM TWO POINTS OF VIEW: 2 by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB SONG OF THE GREEK AMAZON by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |