Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RAINBOW, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft falls the mild reviving shower Last Line: The rainbow in the cloud! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Rainbows | ||||||||
SOFT falls the mild reviving shower From April's changeful skies, And raindrops bend each trembling flower They tinge with richer dyes. Soon shall their genial influence call A thousand buds to day, Which, waiting but that balmy fall, In hidden beauty lay. E'en now full many a blossom's bell With fragrance fills the shade; And verdure clothes each grassy dell, In brighter tints arrayed. But mark! what arch of varied hue From heaven to earth is bowed? Haste; ere it vanish, haste to view The Rainbow in the cloud! How bright its glory! there behold The emerald's verdant rays, The topaz blends its hue of gold With the deep ruby's blaze. Yet not alone to charm thy sight Was given the vision fair; -- Gaze on that arch of coloured light, And read God's mercy there. It tells us that the mighty deep, Fast by the Eternal chained, No more o'er earth's domain shall sweep, Awful and unrestrained. It tells that seasons, heat and cold, Fixed by His sovereign will, Shall, in their course, bid man behold Seed-time and harvest still. That still the flower shall deck the field, When vernal zephyrs blow; That still the vine its fruit shall yield, When autumn sunbeams glow. Then, child of that fair earth! which yet Smiles with each charm endowed, Bless thou His name, whose mercy set The Rainbow in the cloud! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TIE-DOWN OF A BONSAI by MARVIN BELL THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ON A RAINBOW AT NIGHT by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD TO THE RAINBOW by THOMAS CAMPBELL GREEK SPRING; MARCH, ATHENS, 1913 by RHYS CARPENTER THE GREAT ADVENTURE by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS THE RAINBOW by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE RAINBOW (1) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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