Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEAUTIFUL RAIN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO


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BEAUTIFUL RAIN, by                    
First Line: Rain, rain, beautiful rain
Last Line: Weep for the orphan girl, beautiful rain.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mothers; Rain; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


Rain, rain, beautiful rain,
Soothe from my temples their throbbing and pain;
Tiny, cool palmlets, press over my brow,
I am so heart-sick and desolate, now;
Let your pure tear-drops weep off all my pain,
Crystal-like, glittering, beautiful rain.

You have come down from yon blue dome above,
Bring you with you not one token of love?
Could you not pierce from that grey wreath of clouds,
Into the world which its mist-mantle shrouds?
Could you not help my poor heart in its pain?
'Tis numb with sorrowing, beautiful rain.

Once I was happy and laughing and bright,
Gorgeous-hued rainbows I saw in your light;
You seemed like pearls from the pure world above,
For I was happy — was loving and loved;
But hopes lie withered, and life seems a chain,
Death will but welcome be, beautiful rain.

Is there no chink in that great world above,
Where angels ever see those whom they love?
Father and mother, look down on your child,
I have been willful and wayward and wild,
But I am weary, I call you in vain;
None weep with me but the beautiful rain.

I feel so old and so tired of life,
Everything seems full of sorrow and strife;
There is no love, faith or charity here,
Save with the coffin, the shroud and the bier;
Sparkling bright drops, ease my brows of their pain,
Bless, as a mother would, beautiful rain.

Comfort and soothe me for just a short time,
Whisper soft words draped in angelic rhyme;
Lisp to me child's talk and love's low replies,
Murmur faint music and sweet lullabys,
And, at last, moan o'er my grave a refrain;
Weep for the orphan girl, beautiful rain.





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