Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAYER UNDER GRAY SKIES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: O god, let there be rain! Last Line: O god, let there be rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Rain; Socialism | ||||||||
O GOD, let there be rain! Rain, till this sky of gray That covers us every day Be utterly wept away, Let there be rain, we pray, Till the sky be washed blue again Let there be rain! O God, let there be rain, For the sky hangs heavy with pain, And we, who walk upon the earth, We find our days not of worth; None blesses the day of our birth, We question of death's day in vain, -- Let there be rain. O God, let there be rain Till the full-fed earth complain. Yes, though it sweep away The seeds sown yesterday And beat down the blossoms of May And ruin the border gay: In storm let this gray noon wane, Let there be rain! O God, let there be rain Till the rivers rise a-main! Though the waters go over us quite And over us up from the light And whelm us away in the night And the flowers of our life be slain, O God, let there be rain! O God, let there be rain, Out of the gray sky, rain! To wash the earth and to wash the sky And the sick, sad souls of the folk who sigh In the gray of a sordid satiety. Open Thy flood-gates, O God most High, And some day send us the sun again. O God, let there be rain! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION by EDWARD CARPENTER THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND by ANDREW LANG MICE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY by THOMAS MCGRATH A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR WARREN by THOMAS MCGRATH A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY by EDITH BLAND NESBIT |
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