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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAINY NIGHTS, by NANNIE LAURA FORTSON
First Line: By day my lawn is stark and bare
Last Line: Will turn my lake to barren lawn.
Subject(s): Lawns; Rain
First Line: By day my lawn is stark and bare
Last Line: Will turn my lake to barren lawn.
Subject(s): Lawns; Rain
By day my lawn is stark and bare,
(What strength have I to make it fair!)
The Sun's fierce glare in noonday's heat
Reveals its scars, weed-grown and deep.
I turn my eyes and will not trace
The ugly lines across the place;
They think I do not care, but oh!
The jagged ruts tear at me so!
But rainy nights! why then I creep
To sit in darkness still and deep,
And from my window gaze upon
My much transfigured, radiant lawn,
And dream it is a lovely lake
O'er which the quivering moonbeams shake.
(The moonbeams though are naught at all
But rays from street lights straight and tall.)
Yet still I sit, while the kind rain
Taps gently on my windowpane;
While now and then a fitful breeze
Sets leaves to dancing on the trees.
When morning nears, all wet and gray,
I draw my shades and turn away,
For well I know, the prying dawn
Will turn my lake to barren lawn.
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