Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RAIN IN THE NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH



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First Line: Rain in the night is falling
Last Line: The pattering of the rain.
Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Dejection


Rain in the night is falling
Softly and gently down,
Pattering on the shingles
Of the farmhouse old and brown.

And tho' I cannot see it,
Nor feel its crystal drops,
Yet I hear its constant music
Upon the old housetop.

Pitter, patter, patter, pit!
How melodious its sound,
As it trickles from the eave-sides
And splashes on the ground.

But a feeling so sad, so dreary,
Which I canot explain,
Comes over me when, at night, I hear
The pattering of the rain.




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