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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POINT LOMA SONNETS: 7. RAIN, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON
First Line: It rained tonight and down gray loma's slopes
Last Line: Awakes tonight and sings and lives again.
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Rain
First Line: It rained tonight and down gray loma's slopes
Last Line: Awakes tonight and sings and lives again.
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Rain
It rained tonight and down gray Loma's slopes
Creep hesitant a thousand vagrant streams
Into deep sculptured canyons; like your dreams
Of other days; as singing as your hopes
Of days to come. How sometimes Fancy scoops
A hollow out of Time itself, and gleams
Among stilled hours and dead! So long it seems
You have but silence known -- your tired heart gropes
At first along ways unaccustomed, lost;
Then lifts and rushes like this rushing rain,
Pours like these rills that search the barren coast
And hurtle to the sea. Down some close lane
Your heart runs home. So Loma -- lonely ghost --
Awakes tonight and sings and lives again.
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