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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAIN, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poet's Biography First Line: The kindled clouds loom bright as burning smoke Last Line: What cause, what cloudy banner summons me? Subject(s): Rain | |||
The kindled clouds loom bright as burning smoke O'er the vast conflagration of the sky, Rain in their folds, and inland heavily Roll o'er the sodden fallows, all a-soak Under the glowing sunset. Since I woke, Till now with skirts updrawn sullenly fly The hosts of gloom, has rain, rain rushing by, Battered the woodlands with his watery stroke. In baffled rage, tempestuous melancholy, Throbs my oppress'd heart, as of one afar From some last field of death and victory; Who waits to hear his comrades' onset-volley, Swordless and sick. What means this ghostly war? What cause, what cloudy banner summons me? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DISTANT RAINFALL by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 32 by JAMES JOYCE HEAVY SUMMER RAIN by JANE KENYON CROWD CORRALLING by MARGARET AVISON THE RAIN-POOL by KARLE WILSON BAKER |
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