|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAINY SUNDAY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain
Last Line: The mother throned serene amid the rest.
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Rain; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues
First Line: The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain
Last Line: The mother throned serene amid the rest.
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Rain; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues
The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain
Veils in the lonely, Sunday streets afar.
The passengers sit dumb within the car—
Slow drops slip wearily down the window-pane.
A funeral procession takes its way
Across the tracks, the car stands still a space,
All eyes are turned and every anxious face,—
Save one, that laughs oblivious of delay.
Holding her baby close against her breast,
The heart of love, too glad to comprehend,
And Life at war with Death until the end,
The mother throned serene amid the rest.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
CHINATOWN BLUES by CLARENCE MAJOR
KEEP DRIVING by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
DEEP IN EUROPE by TOMAS TRANSTROMER
IN THE STREETS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER
EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET by DAVID WAGONER
ANGLOSAXON STREET by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY
SONNET: 24. THE STREET by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A STEP AWAY FROM THEM by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)
THE BLACK PANTHER by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK