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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAIN-SONGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poet's Biography First Line: The rain streams down like harp-strings from the sky Last Line: He plays upon the harp-strings of the rain. Subject(s): African Americans; Rain; Negroes; American Blacks | |||
THE rain streams down like harp-strings from the sky; The wind, that world-old harpist sitteth by; And ever as he sings his low refrain, He plays upon the harp-strings of the rain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AUNT ELLA MAE by MICHAEL S. HARPER DERRICK POEM (THE LOST WORLD) by TERRANCE HAYES ODE TO BIG TREND by TERRANCE HAYES WOOFER (WHEN I CONSIDER THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN) by TERRANCE HAYES CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL A BANJO SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR |
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