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| Searching... Subject: RAIN Matches Found: 651 "IT'S RAINING, IT'S POURING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And couldn't get up in the morning Subject(s): Rain "IT'S RAINING, IT'S RAINING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And picking up their frocks Subject(s): Rain 2 INSOMNIACS & THE CAT, by TODD KALINSKI Poem Source First Line: I look out through the back door Last Line: Wait for the american flag & the national anthem, %wait for some approval from their masters Subject(s): Rain 33, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Up stains hem of sky Last Line: Hope the rain stops soon Subject(s): Rain; Water 7-DEC, by DAVID GOLDFARB Poem Source First Line: Rain and sun breaking the day apart. Everyone deserves forgiveness Last Line: -not speaking to her this week. Or next. Rain and the day suddenly %fell into rags Subject(s): Rain A DANCE FOR RAIN (AT COCHITI, NEW MEXICO), by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may never see rain, unless you see Last Line: Rain, rain in cochiti! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Cochiti, New Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Rain; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States A DAY OF SUN, by ADELAIDE DAVIS REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Rain, and rain and rain Last Line: After the rain ... The rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Francelia Adelaide Subject(s): Rain A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Careful observers may foretell the hour Last Line: Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. Subject(s): Rain A GORGEOUS DAY, by ESTELLE WEBB THOMAS Poem Text First Line: You and I planned a gorgeous day Last Line: But in simply being together! Subject(s): Rain; Togetherness A KIND OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain began making recommendations Last Line: I was pushing your name into the air Subject(s): Rain A MOTHER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rained all day the day she died Last Line: She never thought the skies were gray. Subject(s): Mothers; Rain A MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a fir-tree stark against the sky Last Line: A mystery. Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Rain; Snow; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery A PRAIRIE MIRACLE, by GRACE WELSH LUTGEN Poem Text First Line: The river's dwindled to a creek under the red sun's glare Last Line: Relives that scene at nain. Subject(s): Drought; Prairies; Rain; Plains A PRAYER FOR RAIN, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it come down: these thicknesses of air Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Rain A RAIN SKETCH, by MARY KATE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I like to feel the long slim train Last Line: Ploughs onward through the rain. Subject(s): Railroads; Rain; Railways; Trains A RAIN SONG, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plover pauses in his search Last Line: All loveliness away! Subject(s): Rain A RAIN-DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These strifes, these tumults of the noisy world Last Line: White clouds, the laggard remnants of the storm. Subject(s): Rain A RAINBOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A rainbow is god's pledge of peace Last Line: Or clinging to a rose. Subject(s): Colors; Earth; Rain; Rainbows; World A RAINY AFTERNOON; AT RAGATZ, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark are the clouds that hide from longing eyes Last Line: "while he still reigns who said, ""let there be light""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Rain A RAINY DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How tired one grows of a rainy day Last Line: "oh, a rainy day brings back so much" Subject(s): Memory;rain A RAINY DAY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rains. What lady loves a rainy day? Last Line: -- such are not sad, e'en on a rainy day. Subject(s): Rain A RAINY DAY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Ye swallows, through this heavy day Last Line: Enough till prayers and wishes cease. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Rain A RAINY DAY, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Text First Line: The spirit of the day is there Last Line: Your sudden rainbows in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): Rain A RAINY DAY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of this rainy day Last Line: The sun is back -- enough of rain. Subject(s): Rain A RAINY DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As here I sit, the swaying of the trees Last Line: And how the thirsty ground declared it good! Subject(s): Rain A RAINY DAY IN APRIL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Last Line: Giving to me my ditty. Subject(s): April; Rain A RAINY NIGHT, by WILLARD DOUGLAS COXEY Poem Text First Line: Softly the rain falls into the night Last Line: As earth and the heavens meet. Alternate Author Name(s): American Subject(s): Rain; Storms A RAINY PICNIC DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's raining-raining hard as cats and dogs Last Line: Could be put off in such a lot of ways. Subject(s): Children; Picnics; Rain; Childhood; Barbecues A SEA-MARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rains have left the sea-blanks ill to climb Last Line: Stands a sea-mark in the tides of time. Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Time; Ocean A SHORT SYMPHONY, by WILLIAM M. GILBERT Poem Text First Line: The director beat a sharp tattoo Last Line: A critic's hearty clap. Subject(s): Rain A SHOWER, by MABEL ETHLEEN PALMER Poem Text First Line: See, the clouds in troops are must'ring Last Line: Brilliant, beautiful, and clear. Subject(s): Rain A SONG OF THE CRUISE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sun and the rain, and the rain and the sun! Last Line: But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Sun; Ocean A SUDDEN SHOWER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barefooted boys scud up the street Last Line: A dripping rooster on one leg. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rain A SUNSTROKE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun courted water Last Line: Home she came running in rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Rain A WET AUGUST, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nine drops of water bead the jessamine Last Line: Were wrought more bright than brightest skies to-day. Subject(s): Rain; Summer A WET EVENING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silvern circle of this summer lake Last Line: With morn may kindle again. Subject(s): Harvest; Mist; Rain; Water; Weather A WET JUNE DAY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scents, sounds as of november fill the air Last Line: A windy west, the color of a rose. Subject(s): Rain A WET NIGHT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pace along, the rain-shafts riddling me Last Line: And taking all such toils as trifles mere. Subject(s): Rain ABOVE MONTEFIRIDOLFI, by LYNNE LAWNER Poem Source First Line: The clouds hang their fingers over the land and let the threat drop Last Line: Towards rainbows that will, when they want to, appear before us Subject(s): Rain; Rainbows ACCLAIMING RAIN, by ROSE ANN SPAITH Poem Source First Line: Today rain plays more exquisitely Last Line: I tilt my face upward %and pray for an encore Subject(s): Rain; Religion ACCOMPANIED THUS, by CHARLES H. HOWE Poem Text First Line: Since he alone has heard / the walking feet Last Line: Made by the liquid hoof. Subject(s): Rain ACCUSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this is what you meant Last Line: If this is what you meant? Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Moon; Rain; Shadows; Sky ACID RAIN, by DAVID HOVAN CHECK Poem Source First Line: The environmental issue Subject(s): Acid Rain; Environment ACID RAIN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is falling on me again Last Line: Were so loving to me Subject(s): Acid Rain; Love ACID RAIN, by JOE Q. LEARY Poem Source First Line: Growing in size Last Line: Time and nature clothed %their kids with Subject(s): Acid Rain ACID RAIN, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: Even the lesser frogs Last Line: One old bachelor hasn't changed at all. %'happiness is in the moment,' %he chortles, mounting her Subject(s): Acid Rain ACID RAIN, by ED ZAHNISER Poem Source First Line: Upriver, handymen sell their houses back to strout realty Last Line: It's the tenth portion that anchors your barn Subject(s): Acid Rain; Environment; Nature AFTER DROUGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came an army from the sky Last Line: For god was captain of the line! Subject(s): Rain AFTER GREAT DROUGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain gropes with delicate pushing fingers Last Line: The world's as sweet as a rose: a rain-wet rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Drought; Flowers; God; Hope; Rain; Roses; Optimism AFTER RAIN, by ANYA PETRUNKEVITCH Poem Text First Line: How good to see once thirsty soil replete Last Line: The hope of harvest plenty ... Work well done. Subject(s): Rain; Sonnet (as Literary Form) AFTER RAIN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of a night and a day and a night Last Line: That begins again Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain AFTER RAINFALL, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The thrush starts singing down the road Last Line: I jotting down this laughing song. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Birds; Rain; Thrushes AFTER THE RAIN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has ceased, and in my room Last Line: With purple ripples on her neck. Subject(s): Nature; Rain AFTER THE RAIN, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: I love the little rain / which dries itself Last Line: "a circle of gold on your eiderdown." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Love; Rain AFTER THE RAIN, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON Poem Text First Line: Silver shadows on a clean blue sky Last Line: That god mirrored heaven in this gutter pool? Subject(s): Rain AFTER THE RAIN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dripping the hollyhocks beneath the wall Last Line: Caught in the breath of one white rose. Subject(s): Rain AFTER THE RAIN, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The elves peep through the ferny copse Last Line: And under the rainbow arch is gone. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Water AFTER THE STORM, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pathetic beauty in it all Last Line: Gayness to pathos, with no beauty lost Subject(s): Beauty; Rain AFTER THREE WEEKS OF RAIN, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Out on the farm, cattle founder in the feeding pens Last Line: Burdened with more than it can hold in one season Subject(s): Rain AGRICULTURE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AH RAIN!, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet scented, dripping from eaves and darkening Last Line: My religion is rain, my anger, hate, love is rain Subject(s): Politics & Government; Rain AH RAIN!, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet scented, dripping from eaves and darkening Last Line: I drench my body, shimmer, clothes wet, %my religion is rain, my anger, hate, love is rain Subject(s): Politics; Rain ALL DAY: WEARINESS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I have thought of rain-wet bark Last Line: Like weariness! Subject(s): Rain; Trees; Weariness; Fatigue ALL NIGHT THROUGH, RAVES OR BROODS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And still I feel the wandering— Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Rain; Melancholy ALONG THE ROAD TO STONE LAKE: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throw on rouge and powder, watch the governor pass Last Line: At dusk I met an old man lying drunk beside the road. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Variant Title(s): Along The Road To Stone Lake (1078) Subject(s): Drought; Leadership; Rain ALONG THE ROAD TO STONE LAKE: 3, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grasses, a plain of sedge fresh with passing rain Last Line: Your governor, long ago, lived in a place like this Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Drought; Leadership; Rain AMERICAN PAINTING, WITH RAIN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gates have closed to the rotted park Last Line: Greeting the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Paintings And Painters; Rain; Thunder; English AMONG YOU, by MARIA TERRONE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the rain Last Line: Into rivers, earth, the food you eath, %your own bloodstream Subject(s): Rain; Subways AN APRIL ROMANCE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crystal spears of slantwise-driven rain Last Line: The princess daffodil, of trembling gold. Subject(s): April; New York City - Dutch Period; Rain AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There trudges one to a merry-making Last Line: On whom the rain comes down. Subject(s): Rain AN ODE TO THE RAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know it is dark; and though I have lain Last Line: Do go, dear rain! Do go away. Subject(s): Rain ANCIENT RAIN, by JUDITH MOUNTAIN LEAF VOLBORTH Poem Source First Line: A leafy movement of small creatures Last Line: A shawl of white shell dreams Subject(s): Rain AND I IN MY BED AGAIN, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night / tossed in Last Line: Wind from the east Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Rain ANGEL IN THE DELUGE, by ROSARIO MURILLO Poem Source First Line: Today it rains all over the world and we are two Last Line: And for me, life hurts Subject(s): Rain ANSWERING PEI DI, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Murky and flooding, cold currents broaden Last Line: I know in my heart it's beyond white clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mount Zhong-nan, China; Rain APACHE PLUME; 4. THE ARCHITECTURE OF SILENCE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gate was unlocked. We drove to the road's end; grapefruit lay Last Line: Stop dropping Subject(s): Nature; Rain APRIL INTERVAL IV, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no spring in saratoga springs Subject(s): Rain APRIL LADIES, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April rains are shod with silver Last Line: Wake the crocuses from sleep. Subject(s): April; Rain APRIL RAIN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The april rain, the april rain Last Line: Like life on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): April; Rain APRIL SHOWERS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are fresh after the rain Last Line: To be alive on such a day. Subject(s): Rain; Schools; Students AQUARELLE AFTER WATTEAU, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Shepherdess, - nay, go not yet Last Line: Gainst your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Rain AQUARIUM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Water tends to occupy the spaces love cannot reach Last Line: The sea is afraid of falling into the earth Subject(s): Disasters; Rain; Shipwrecks; Survival; Thirst; Water ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder Last Line: Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Native Americans; Rain; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ARLES IN THE RAIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The rain like an old woman with silken steps Last Line: And of my father's footsteps haunting me Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Solitude AS ONE LISTENS TO THE RAIN, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to me as one listens to the rain, Subject(s): Rain AT A THATCHED HUT ON THE FLOWER BANK OF MOUNT T'IEN-T'AI ..., by HSU YUN Poem Source First Line: Hard rain, our gathered firewood scant Last Line: Wrapped in robes of zen Subject(s): Rain; Zen Buddhism AT DIEPPE: 3. RAIN ON THE DOWN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and the down by the sea Last Line: As she came to me out of the rain. Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Rain AUTUMN NOCTURNE, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen how low the rain is singing there Last Line: Even this last-heard, drowsy sound of rain. Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days ago the sky was Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky; Fall AUTUMN RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two days ago the sky was Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky BAD RAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That was bad rain bad rain endless bad rain Last Line: I believed I was necessary. I'm not.' Subject(s): Rain; Self BEAUTIFUL RAIN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Rain, rain, beautiful rain Last Line: Weep for the orphan girl, beautiful rain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mothers; Rain; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness BEFORE SUMMER RAIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All at once something Last Line: Afternoons you feared would never end Subject(s): Rain BEFORE THE RAIN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We knew it would rain, for all the morn Last Line: Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain BEFORE THE RAIN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poplar shows its white teeth to the gust Last Line: Fall sudden-sweet great drops of silver rain. Subject(s): Rain BELL AND DRUM ON THE SOUTH RIVER BANK, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bell and drum on the south river bank Last Line: Beyond treetops I see the slant of a bridge. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Variant Title(s): Bell And Drum On The South River Bank (1101) Subject(s): Happiness; Homecoming; Rain; Joy; Delight BELLA HAD A NEW UMBRELLA, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Umbrellas; Rain BELOW FREEZING ON PINELOG MOUNTAIN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched in the rusted cab of a junked pulpwood truck Last Line: Rises like gray smoke through rust holes in the roof. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Appalachia; Guns; Mountains; Rain; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BETWEEN HINGHAM AND BRAINTREE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between braintree and hingham Last Line: On the full flood tide! Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Water BIOLUMINESCENCE: 2. LAMBERT, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, fire- / flies are startled by lightning Subject(s): Fireflies; Rain; Sleep; Glowworms BIRDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Think it's evening Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Rain BLACKOUT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Bill the hurricane is standing on my roof Last Line: But this black wall of water, this ocean %tipped on its side Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Hurricanes; Nature; Rain; Weather BLOOM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When flowers thrust their heads above the ground Last Line: That hold a star? Subject(s): Flowers; Rain BROOKLYN WATERFALL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Water where you least expect it Last Line: Where it waits for us, %not needing forgiveness Subject(s): Rain; Water; Waterfalls BRUSSELS IN THE RAIN, by DANIEL KUNITZ Poem Source First Line: All morning tourists dodged the summer drizzle Last Line: When a travel comes to crossroads, he dances Subject(s): Brussels; Rain BUCKET IN THE RAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rejoice! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain BUCKETS, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of rain Last Line: We win Subject(s): Rain; Water BURNING IN THE RAIN, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someday compassion would demand Last Line: The rain would not let their lives burn Subject(s): Rain BURNING THE RAIN FOREST, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I watched webster hold an ax blade to a gray Last Line: And child, I can see the smoke from illinois Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Memory; Rain Forests BURY ME IN THE RAIN, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Bury me in the rain, %let it clutch the earth below, Last Line: O, bury me in the rain, Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Rain BY STUBBORN STARS: SONNET 1, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver herring throbbed thick in my seine Last Line: Straight through the air my mooring line to you. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails CALIFORNIA RAIN, by MARGERY AILYN BISHOP Poem Text First Line: My grief and I walked quietly Last Line: Was raining, raining on the hill. Subject(s): Rain CALIFORNIA'S RESURRECTION, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain! The rain! The generous rain! Last Line: Behold what witness like to this? Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California; Rain CAN YOU FEEL, IN THE RAIN, by MARGARET AHO Poem Source First Line: Each whorl Last Line: Yellow %thistle of my heart? Subject(s): Rain CANCIONEIRO: IT'S RAINING, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: It's raining. There is silence, since the rain itself Last Line: It's raining. Nothing in me feels Subject(s): Rain CASUALTIES: 19. THE FLOOD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of events pours down Last Line: Who were at home on sea, air, and land Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Umbrellas; Water CATCH: ON A WET DAY, by FRANCO SACCHETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked thinking through a little grove Last Line: And never noticed till I got wet through. Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood CHAFFINCH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wet! Wet! Hear chaffinch! He cries and calls Last Line: Will drench the orchard to-night and the cherry-bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Finches; Rain; Singing & Singers CHAMBER MUSIC: 32, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Rain has fallen all the day Last Line: Speak to your heart. Subject(s): Rain; Love CHANT OF THE SPRING RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Rain like the rustling of fine garments Last Line: "and this is life and its mystery!" Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain; Spring; Weather CHARMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prune your corn in the gray of the Last Line: Ilka freckle's gang awa! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Charms (magic); Corn; Feet; Rain CHILDREN AT PLAY, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: The wind is rustling in the lame,' said sybil Last Line: "let's do,"" jane said." Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood CHILDREN'S RAIN SONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O the rain drop drop drop Last Line: Whatever there is to eat Subject(s): Drought;jews;mysticism - Judaism;rain; Judaism CHINESE POET AMONG BARBARIANS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain drives, drives endlessly Last Line: Or share with me a single human thought. Subject(s): Longing; Rain CHRONICLE OF THE RAIN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: One of her nipples was red, tepid, carnal; the other, blue, looked Last Line: The sea cease to exist?' I chose not to disillusion him Subject(s): Dreams; Rain CITIES: 1. LONDON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a shawl of fog thrown over her shoulders Last Line: Remembering her youth, in the rain. Subject(s): Buses; Fog; London; Rain; Haze CITY OF DREADFUL THIRSTS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger came from narromine and made his little joke Last Line: That narrow-minded person on his road to narromine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Rain; Thirst; Urban Life CITY RAIN, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain in the city! Last Line: And the rain like a rumbling tune that sings %through everything I do Subject(s): Rain CITY RAIN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are etched with traceries of grey Last Line: Dashing its living wonder in our eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Water CITY RAIN, by JEAN-MARK SENS Poem Source First Line: Singe blue of the storm Last Line: Wriggled away in the meandering haze coils of hot tarmac Subject(s): Cities; Rain CITY VIGNETTE: RAIN AT NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The street-lamps shine in a yellow line Last Line: By the tread of homing feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life COLDER THE RAINDROPS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The harder they knock %on the door Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain COMPLETION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brooklet fell from the crannied rock Last Line: A drop of water good to drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Sea; Spring; Water; Wine; Ocean COMPOSITION 1, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: It's raining, %it rains in lima Last Line: And my own uncertain poetical convictions Subject(s): Peru; Poetry And Poets; Rain; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917) CONTEMPORANIA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The corner of a great rain Last Line: That makes the little leaves follow me. Subject(s): Rain COOLIE IN THE RICE FIELDS, by GLADYS GANE Poem Text First Line: Rain falls on the rice fields Last Line: In snow-white heaps Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rain; Rice; Work; Workers CORTEGE, by DAVID CHORLTON Poem Source First Line: Nobody hears the cortege Last Line: Who think they see a line of swans Subject(s): Rain CREST, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night was a bad one. Subject(s): Driving; Ferry Boats; Night; Rain; Relationships; Bedtime CROSS-ROADS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain beat in our faces Last Line: To what we each loved best. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Rain; Travel Directions CROWD CORRALLING, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rain, / the bean-mash smell Subject(s): Rain CROWN, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too much rain Subject(s): Rain CRUMPLED CANDY WRAPPER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Refuse And Refuse Disposal DAKOTA SHOWERS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining wheat and corn Last Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining corn and wheat. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Rain; South Dakota; Wheat; Agriculture; Farmers DANGER ZONES (1), by TOMAS HARRIS Poem Source First Line: A rain-soaked treetop Last Line: Whose foliage was simply leaves Subject(s): Forests; Rain DARK AND FALLING SUMMER, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain was full of the freshness Last Line: Everywhere was full of the pulsing of the loud and fallen dusk Subject(s): Rain; Summer DARK RAIN, by RANE ARROYO Poem Source First Line: One more sleepless night. The newest translation Last Line: Dark rain seeking refuge in eyes after eyes Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Rain DECEMBER IN MOSCOW, by MIRIAM VAN HEE Poem Source First Line: If it rains in the city Last Line: Who would make you and me %into someone else Subject(s): December; Moscow; Rain DEJEUNER SUR L'HERBE, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's pleasant to board the ferry in the sunscape Last Line: It will be cold, going back. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ferry Boats; Rain DEMETER TO PERSEPHONE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you walking up out of that hole Subject(s): Rain; Love DESCRIPTIONS, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: The clouds pregnant with rain Last Line: At the slightest wind of annoyance. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Rain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness DESTRUCTIVE RAIN, by EVA TRIEM Poem Text First Line: Resentfully, I listen to the rain Last Line: The rain has smothered in its silver hood. Subject(s): Rain DIGGING UP THE BRIARS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: Any stretch of rain will tell you Last Line: Smell it - the sharp green scent %of rain, ascending Subject(s): Brier; Rain DISTANT RAINFALL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like mourning women veiled to the feet Last Line: Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost battle’s beauty Subject(s): Rain; Mourning; Bereavement DOLLY IN THE RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When dolly tiptoed in the rain Last Line: The shameless sun peeped out to see. Subject(s): Charm; Rain; Watchmen; Women DOWN THE RAIN FALLS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When they talk to themselves %for company's sake Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Rain DOWN TO THE DOGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains as never before; and I Last Line: Don't feel like staying alive, heart Subject(s): Peru; Rain; Tears; Weather DOWNPOUR, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: From an airtight office window Last Line: And the riverbed of memory Subject(s): Rain DREGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains, as never before; and I don't Last Line: This afternoon it rains, it pours. And I don't %want to live, heart! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Rain; Tears; Weather DRENCH, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sleep with a dream of summer weather, Subject(s): Rain DRIZZLE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hit's been drizzlin' an' been sprinklin' Last Line: Dat des drizzle all de day. Subject(s): Rain DRUMS OF THE WIND, by VIRGINIA HAW Poem Text First Line: The drums of the wind with gusty beat Last Line: Mark time for rain. Subject(s): Rain; Wind DRY GHAZAL, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Dry lightning struck the parched bay tree Last Line: The dry wind turned. It rained. It rains. It's raining Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Weather DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement EARTH AND A WEDDED WOMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd, with his eye on hazy south Last Line: Thrice beauteous is our sunshine after rain! Subject(s): Earth; Rain; Summer; World ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: RAIN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn rains flatten sycamore leaves Last Line: The skin of my belly will tighten like a belt %and there will be no reason for pockets Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; San Joaquin Valley, California ELUDED, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the night I heard Last Line: (no lost love stepped within my room -- only the pallid dawn!) Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Rain ENCOUNTERING RAIN ON THE SEVENTH NIGHT, by XIE WUNIANG Poem Source First Line: Seeking skill they pass the wine cups without pause Last Line: Falling outside the blinds, they make the sound of rain Subject(s): Rain END OF WINTER, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: March, thin pane between in Last Line: Disappearing down the avenue into the rain. Subject(s): March (month); Rain; Spring; Winter ENJOYING RAIN ON A SPRING NIGHT, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A good rain knows its season Last Line: At daybreak look where the red is soaked, %the blossoms are heavy in brocade city Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Rain ESSAY: THE ALIEN & BEAUTIFUL LIGHT OF WAKING, RAIN, NIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At evening / announced on flight Last Line: Radiant radiant rain Subject(s): Atoms; Rain; Science; Scientists EUTHANASIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a world of pain Last Line: Ah, the pain again -- it will never be! Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Memory; Pain; Rain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EVEN THE RAIN, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain? Last Line: No one has such small hands, shahid, not even the rain Subject(s): Rain EVERGREEN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thieving centuries grip ageing trees Last Line: And clouds enough to thunder rain on death! Subject(s): Clouds; Cypress Trees; Rain EVERYTHING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: When the river rose that year, we were beside it Last Line: And that everything would never be the same Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Nature; Rain EXPECTATIONS, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We expect rain Subject(s): Rain EXULTATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain surpasses itself. It has gone beyond itself to the contours of a Last Line: To exult at the brilliant fulfillment of a summer day Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Summer; Weather FACING THE WINDOW, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The drugs drip into his arm Last Line: The marbles, %rain rolling down the glass Subject(s): Children; Games; Rain FALL RAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the rain the sodden leaffloor sudders faintly as if rustling Subject(s): Rain FALLING WATER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever it commences perhaps as random Subject(s): Rain FALSE START, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more of the full flower's speech Last Line: I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed. Subject(s): Growth; Nature; Plants; Rain; Sun; Planting; Planters FARMERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the farmers in their fields Last Line: Wisdom and discontent? Variant Title(s): Agricolae Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Love; Quarrels; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers; Arguments; Disagreements FESTE'S SONG (2), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that I was and a little tiny boy Last Line: And wee'l strive to please you every day. Variant Title(s): Clown Sings Subject(s): Rain FIRST NIGHT OF FALL AND FALLING RAIN, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The common rain had come again Subject(s): Rain FLOOD OF FIRST SUMMER, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: Moon. It has torn its net, the algae green monster. Night Last Line: Violet, child-dead sunday. I can not find it Subject(s): Floods; Rain FOR OUR BETTER GRACES, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: God loves / the rain, not us Last Line: "her fragrance Subject(s): God; Love; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees FOR THE RAIN IT RAINETH EVERY DAY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arabs complain - or so I have been told Last Line: How could that comfort you? Subject(s): Rain FOREVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Forever and ever the reddening leaves Last Line: Forever the rain rains on Subject(s): Future Life;memory;rain; Retribution;eternity;after Life FOUR STONES, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: After the night's hard rain Last Line: Awash like four mute stones Subject(s): Flowers; Rain; Seashore FREEZING RAIN, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold snare taps on the skylight Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Cold; Rain FROM THE HEADBOARD OF A GRAVE IN PARAGUAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A troth, and a grief, and a blessing Last Line: And the rainy-day -- she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness FROSTING, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The rain is crooked as it hits the window Last Line: And good riddance too, nasty old coot Subject(s): Country Life; Old Age; Rain GARDENER'S JUBILATE (END OF THE DROUGHT), by NELL E. MABEY Poem Text First Line: The rain! The rain! The ancient, the rain! Last Line: The rain! The rain! The ancient, the rain! Subject(s): Drought; Rain GEORGICS: THE PROMISED RAIN, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But when the winged thunder takes his way Last Line: And in the sockets oyly bubbles dance Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Rain GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine and prickly rain now descends Last Line: "the roman proverb famous." Subject(s): Animals; Germany; Horses; Rain; Soldiers; Germans GETTING A WORD IN, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Very sad Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary GETTING OLDER I'M MUCH BETTER AT WATCHING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In favor of the general feeling of rain Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain GIFTS OF RAIN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cloudburst and steady downpour now for days Subject(s): Environment; Rain; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GIFTS OF RAIN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cloudburst and steady downpour now for days Last Line: Rises to pleasure me, dives, %hoarder of common ground Subject(s): Environment; Rain GIVE THANKS FOR RAIN, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Give thanks for rain when clouds extend Last Line: Give thanks for rain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Weather GLOOMY RAIN, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: Gloomy rain, I hear you on my window pane Last Line: There's gladness in my domain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Pain; Rain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GRASS AND THE SUDDEN RAIN, by PAULS TOUTONGHI Poem Source First Line: Near-vertical road, yorkshire dales, landscape Last Line: Drunk again, wet Subject(s): Rain; Yorkshire, England GRAY APRIL, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Is it april, these gray days Last Line: April! April! Is this you? Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): April; Rain; Spring GRAY WAVES, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: It rains above the sea in gentle murmurs Last Line: The rain would never stop Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Rain; Tears GREAT RAIN OF THE SOUTH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great rain of te south is falling on isla negra Last Line: A woman, a man, and winter on the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Rain; Water GREEN NUMBERS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Others are accustomed to this hat on the furniture step Subject(s): Rain GREEN RAIN, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember long veils of green rain Subject(s): Memory; Rain GREEN RAIN, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember long veils of green rain Last Line: I remember the rain as the feathery fringe of her shawl Subject(s): Memory; Rain HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let every breast dance Last Line: I raise my glass Subject(s): Rain HARVEST SONG, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: A field of golden wheat there grows Last Line: Grind, o mill, keep grinding! Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Rain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HEARING THE RAIN, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: Autumn rain splatters the withered leaves Last Line: Matters of the heart, amid the sound of rain Subject(s): Rain HEAVY SUMMER RAIN, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The grasses in the field have toppled, Last Line: Lie shattered on the lawn Subject(s): Rain; Loss HIGH WATER MARK, by ALMA LONG GRAY Poem Text First Line: The march winds howl and the gusts of rain Last Line: And the house has a coppery high-water band. Subject(s): Rain HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the wind Last Line: Creek remembers; and rages Subject(s): History; Morning; Night; Rain; Wind; Historians; Bedtime HISTORY OF RAIN, by JUDSON MITCHAM Poem Source First Line: What if every prayer for rain brought it down? Last Line: Afterwards, a noise like praise, the rain %still falling in the trees Subject(s): Prayer; Rain HOPE, by KATHARINE MURDOCH DAVIS Poem Text First Line: A breath is stirring the taut-strung nerve Last Line: "perhaps it will rain in the dark." Subject(s): Drought; Rain HOW DOES THE RAIN COME?, by CHARLES ROLLIN BALLARD Poem Text First Line: How does the rain come? Gently, gently Last Line: Pearly, pearly comes the rain. Subject(s): Rain I CHANCED ON RAIN AT WANG-KOU AND RECALLED MOUNT ZHONG-NAN, by PEI DI Poem Source First Line: Rains dense and flooding, cold currents broaden Last Line: But where now is mount zhong-nan? Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mount Zhong-nan, China; Rain I SAID IN MY HEART, by PATRICIA PEART Poem Text First Line: I said in my heart, I am one with running water Last Line: Things as untamed as these, derisive of time and space? Subject(s): Hearts; Rain; Time IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the long dream in the afternoon Last Line: All of his new body away from me. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rain; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids IDYL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine of the grey sky Last Line: And the sea! Subject(s): Clouds; Rain IF RAIN, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If rain can come Last Line: Then shall we know coming and going Subject(s): Clouds; Love; Rain; Romance; Water IMAGE OF RAIN, by CHANG MAN-YUNG Poem Source First Line: The sick sky splashes down cold rain Last Line: To the lonely grave by the sea Subject(s): Rain IMPRESSIONS FROM A PRAIRIE WINDOW: APRIL SHOWER, by LILLIAN SAVOIE HAHN Poem Text First Line: Dawn's rose-spun clouds have dulled and grayed Last Line: Aloof. Subject(s): Rain IN A DOUBLE RAINBOW, by HAROLD LITTLEBIRD Poem Source Last Line: As singing summer floods Subject(s): Rain IN IRELAND: 4. BY LOUGH-NA-GAR: RAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into a land of wandering rain Last Line: A voice crying from far away. Subject(s): Ireland; Rain; Irish IN PASSING, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the canadian side, we're standing far enough away Subject(s): Boats; Rain IN THE DARK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O in the depths of midnight Last Line: And wait for me somewhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Pain; Rain; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery IN THE LITTLE OLD MARKET-PLACE (TO THE MEMORY OF A.V.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rains, it rains Last Line: From wet dawn to wet dawn... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Markets; Rain; Supermarkets IN THE MOJAVE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starved and passionate desert Last Line: The soft, cool tears of love! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Mohave Desert; Rain; Sky; Mojave Desert IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy! Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the footfall of the hail Last Line: For all that she has lost. Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Fall IN THE RAIN, SPENDING THE NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY ..., by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: The hard rain rang as it dashed on the window Last Line: My eye was irritated by a dust speck Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insomnia; Rain IN TIME OF CLOUDBURST, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the downpour roil and toil! Last Line: And resentful of man’s condition Subject(s): Rain IN TIME OF CLOUDBURST, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the downpour roil and toil! Last Line: Never make me tired and morose %and resentful of man's condition Subject(s): Rain IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When spring %and life %are new Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Rain INSIDE THE ROOM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There's not much to notice: against the far wall Last Line: The ending, the slow opening. Subject(s): Emptiness; Loss; Mothers; Rain IRRADIATIONS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spattering of the rain upon pale terraces Last Line: Towards the sunset beyond the broken doors of to-day. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Nightmares IT IS RAINING, by LUCY SPRAGUE MITCHELL Poem Source Last Line: That's where I'd like to be Subject(s): Rain IT RAINED SO HARD THE SKY BECAME WATER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And my face ached to grow gills Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain IT RAINS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rains, and nothing stirs within the fence Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain IT RAINS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It rains, and nothing stirs within the fence Last Line: The past hovering as it revisits the light Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain IT'S GRAND, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's grand to be a squatter Last Line: That would, indeed, be grand! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Rain IT'S RAINING PIGS AND NOODLES, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Then when it's raining rain Subject(s): Rain JAPANESE WOMAN BESIDE THE WATER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: As rain is bending the urgent pine needles Last Line: And later we live for the sky in her arms Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water JERSEY RAIN, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now near the end of the middle stretch of road Subject(s): New Jersey; Rain JOURNAL, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few Last Line: May work.' Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas JUNE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Dust dust dust dust dust dust Subject(s): Rain JUNE THUNDER, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The junes were free and full, driving through tiny Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Rain JUNE THUNDER, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The junes were free and full, driving through tiny Last Line: If only now you would come I should be happy %now if now only Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Rain JUST & UNJUST, by CHARLES SYNGE CHRISTOPHER BOWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain it raineth on the just Last Line: The unjust steals the just's umbrella. Alternate Author Name(s): Bowen, Baron Variant Title(s): Gentian: You Are Unjust Subject(s): Rain KA WAIAPO LANI (HEAVENLY SHOWERS), by LYDIA KAMAKAEHA Poem Source First Line: As if the flow of the waters Last Line: And a heart which beats within Subject(s): Rain KIND OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain began making recommendations Last Line: I was pushing your name into the air Subject(s): Rain KING IN MAY, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: The rich king of a rainy country Last Line: This wet plague is destroying me. %I am becoming a vegetable of stiff gold Subject(s): Rain LARGESSE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LARGO, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rain Subject(s): Rain; Togetherness LATE RAIN, by WALTER G. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Late rain / finally came Last Line: Until another season. Subject(s): Rain LIFE ON THE LAKES: STORM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A chill creeps over the waters wide Last Line: The hurt call sounds four! Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Weather; Lightning Rods LIGHT RAIN ON LIGHT DUST, by HEINER MULLER Poem Source Last Line: When you come to the gates of go Subject(s): Death; Rain LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 11. SHOWER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pink and purple Last Line: And the robin's %ballad of the rain Subject(s): Rain LITTLE RAIN, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! She is good, the little rain! And well she knows our need Last Line: Down broidered lawns all bright with pearls in the garden of the king Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Rain LITTLE RAIN IN RIYADH, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: A drizzle tickles our upturned faces Last Line: Regarding me as you would the light shed %over the sea at alexandria Subject(s): Love; Rain; Water LODGED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain to the wind said Last Line: I know how the flowers felt Subject(s): Rain; Flowers LONDON RAIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of london Last Line: Falling asleep I listen %to the falling london rain Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): London; Rain LONDON RAIN, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it rained in devon Subject(s): London; Rain LONDON STUDIES: OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day it rained, but now the air Last Line: Is grey as these. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): London; Rain LOVE POEM, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain smell comes with the wind Subject(s): Summer; Love; Rain LUCK, by ERIC TRETHEWEY Poem Source First Line: In the almost-dawn, rain's steady whisper Last Line: It's morning again. The wipers beat time %on the windshield,almost up with the rain Subject(s): Rain LULL, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lull in rain Last Line: And four or five liters of rain Subject(s): Rain LULLABY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: You are safe %you are lying in a hammock Last Line: The light is pale and clear %it feels so good to listen to the thunder Subject(s): Rain; Thunder MAD GIRL'S SONG, by L. E. F. BARRY Poem Source First Line: The rain! The rain! Subject(s): Rain MAY RAIN, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Evening at morning. Slow drip Last Line: And keeps the pressure on Subject(s): Rain; Weather MAY RAIN, PRINCETON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green, green, the luminous maples preen Subject(s): Rain; Princeton, New Jersey MELANCHOLY WATER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: There is an intelligence in joy Last Line: I hear only the cry of a goose Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Tears; Water MERMILL RD., MILTON CENTER, by MARK DALEY Poem Source First Line: We're watered down, this morning light diffuse Last Line: Wearing down like weather does a rock Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Weather; Wind METEOROLOGY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: A storm front wanders down from the mountains, gray and white Last Line: The other riders wrapped in themselves like explorers lost in a blizzard %then they're gone, too, an Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Weathervanes; Wind MIDNIGHT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the rain stops Subject(s): Rain MISERABLE NIGHT, by AVENELLE WILMETH BLAIR Poem Text First Line: It is raining tonight Last Line: God, how the patients cough! Subject(s): Hospitals; Rain; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life MISTRESS SPRING-IN-A-HURRY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearie o me! I am quite a flutter Last Line: Was ever a springtime so sprightly as I? Subject(s): Rain; Spring MOAN, YE WILD WINDS!, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan, ye wild winds! Around the pane Last Line: Or ere ye cease, if shed for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Heaven; Rain; Wind; Paradise MOONRISE, by HELENE THURSTON Poem Text First Line: The cool and trailing garments of the dusk Last Line: Her face smiles down upon the waiting world. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Rain; Bedtime MORE POWERFUL THAN THE GOVERNMENT, by GILES GOODLAND Poem Source Last Line: Although I brim with what I was Subject(s): Rain; Riddles MOTHER'S DAY POEM, by III WILLIAM CANNON Poem Source First Line: The parking lot is sparkling, rain Last Line: She is sure I know nothing about love Subject(s): Mother's Day; Poetry And Poets; Rain MOUNTAIN LIVING: 9, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Clouds scatter the length of the the sky Last Line: As clear as the ice Subject(s): Rain; Spring; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN RAIN, by YU KUANG-CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The fog gathers, gathering, grows into rain Last Line: Into a line of zen Subject(s): Rain MUSIC-RAIN, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: He sat-a tall and wraith-like form Last Line: Soft showers revived, brought joy again. Subject(s): Despair; Rain; Thunder NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another flood is finished to a fall Last Line: Will long bear us aberrants on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Holidays; New Year; Rain; Seashore; Time; Water NEWS, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the low west falls suddenly shining Last Line: Is contented in faery land. Subject(s): Discontent; News; Rain; Storms; Wind; Dissatisfaction NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: EBB TIDE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's salt on your ashen lips, lady Subject(s): Wind; Rain NIGHT RAIN, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With will the flicker of a candle flame Subject(s): Rain NIGHT RAIN, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: Rain crosses the jade stairs, the fragrant grass is green Last Line: At midnight the returning swan spends the night on the river bank alone Subject(s): Rain NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is pissing down Subject(s): Danube (river); Flight; Human Rights; Rain; Flying NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is pissing down Last Line: The time will come %when I feed you to fish in the danube Subject(s): Danube (river); Flight; Human Rights; Rain NOT ALL WET, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Jean had / a pair of Last Line: At that. Subject(s): Rain NOVEMBER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rainy november is here Last Line: Old and faded is the year. Subject(s): November; Rain NOVEMBER RAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How separate we are Subject(s): Rain NOVEMBER SKIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Than these november skies Last Line: Faint purple flushes of the unvanquished sun. Subject(s): November; Rain; Weather NOVEMBER WEATHER, by LOUIS J. SANKER Poem Text First Line: There's a wag of a rain at my window pane rapping Last Line: Comes a welcome intruder, his brother, the snow. Subject(s): November; Rain NOW SHOWING AT THE ROXY, by KENDRA BORGMANN Poem Source First Line: In the rain that begins while I am asleep Last Line: Our inner ears filling with rainwater and now silence Subject(s): Rain OBLIQUE RAIN: POEM 2, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: Inside, the church lights up today's rain Last Line: In the rain as it stops Subject(s): Churches; Rain OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 27, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faith's pure shield, the christian diana Last Line: And thick heads do vanish. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Rain OBSESSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, take away those haunting eyes Last Line: And the rain cover the hill! Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Rain; Sea; Water; Ocean OLD NIGHT AND SLEEP, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cold rain falls through empty nests, a cold rain Last Line: Some new sense of days being counted. Subject(s): Rain; Sleep ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart. Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean ON FANO, by MICHAEL HOFMANN Poem Source First Line: Acid rain from the ruhr strips one pine in three... Last Line: With their acid peace dreams; a cave art of %giant people, jungles, a plague of dragonflies Subject(s): Acid Rain ON THE BIG HORN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years are but half a score Last Line: Break forth into praise of god! Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Native Americans; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I set forth one misted white day of june Subject(s): Relationships; Rain ORCHARD, by HORACE HOLLEY Poem Text First Line: I stood within an orchard during rain Last Line: Have been a moment's friend to all alive. Variant Title(s): In A Garden Subject(s): Orchards; Rain OTHER WATERS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: It is when the seminal smell of the shadow announces the Last Line: But before then we will have made our descent to the waters Subject(s): Rain; Water OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar Last Line: Our hold on the planet wouldn't have so increased Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar Last Line: Or our number living wouldn't be steadily more, %our hold of the planet wouldn't have so increased Subject(s): Earth; Rain OVER THE MONTH OF JUNE THE RAIN IS FALLING, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source Last Line: The lights of the city come on for further exploits Variant Title(s): The Rain Is Fallin Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water PACK, by TINA CHANG Poem Source First Line: In the rain, the sound of them Last Line: That guard, that wander, that obey, that creep, that bleed Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Rain PAEONIA 'SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU', INCIDENTALLY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ground wants rain. Crouched here Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hands; Rain; Freedom; Liberty PAN PLAYS IN THE RAIN, by DAVID THORNE Poem Text First Line: The rain falls calmly Last Line: And I love the scent of the hills. ... Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Rain PARK APOCRYPHA, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listened but couldn't hear Last Line: As if to use up the distance between them Subject(s): Rain PLUVIA, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the nation of rainy days Last Line: Over the nation of rainy days Subject(s): Nature; Rain POEM ABOUT A DAY: RURAL MEDITATIONS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So here we have a teacher Last Line: Over the fence of his corral! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rain; Spain; Spring POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: TO HER LADISHIP, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If those salt showers that your sad eyes haue shed Last Line: That your so loued mate is gone before. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Grief; Loss; Rain; Reason; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POINT LOMA SONNETS: 7. RAIN, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: It rained tonight and down gray loma's slopes Last Line: Awakes tonight and sings and lives again. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Rain POMPEY HEIGHTS, by ALBERT VANN FOWLER Poem Text First Line: When autumn fills the valleys Last Line: Its icy freshets yet. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Seasons PRAISE TO THE RAIN, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise to the rain, eraser ofr picnics, praise the grey cloud Subject(s): Rain PRAISE TO THE RAIN, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Praise to the rain, eraser ofr picnics, praise the grey cloud Last Line: Of the peaks of power, princes, and mountain slopes Subject(s): Rain PRAYER UNDER GRAY SKIES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text 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 PRAYING FOR RAIN ON THE PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If it comes, %let tractors stall hub-deep Last Line: Stare at flat horizons without a cloud %and blink Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies; Prayer; Rain PRELUDE TO FLOODS, by A. PHIL LONDROCHE Poem Text First Line: An endless rain, an endless rain Last Line: On swollen streams. Subject(s): Rain PREPAREDNESS, by RUBY MIGNON TRUE Poem Text First Line: Red robin with your cheerful lay Last Line: "and buy a rain-coat just his size!" Subject(s): Rain; Robins PRETTY RAIN FROM THOSE SWEET EAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Was fervor's sudden crown Variant Title(s): Poem: 1426; Poem: 144 Subject(s): Rain PROMISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is a rainbow in the sky Last Line: It is the autograph of god Subject(s): Rain;rainbows RAIN, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the falling rain Last Line: Without knowing why Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I never knew how words were vain Last Line: Of this great lyrist, earth. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by EINAR BENEDIKTSSON Poem Text First Line: Who knows, when raindrops are descending Last Line: Each raindrop shares the ocean's fate. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's raining where I am Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by RUTH ELIZABETH BORSON Poem Source First Line: The bay the color of steel, of a warship Last Line: It just looks like a white mist that slowly blows and changes Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Rain, rain, rain Last Line: Of the rain, rain, rain. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by KATHERINE B. BUSHLEY Poem Text First Line: My heart beats faster Last Line: To my small porch to pause. Subject(s): Desire; Rain RAIN, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around, the stillness deepened, the the grain Last Line: Grew to the calm assurance of the moon. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by CHANG MAN-YUNG Poem Source First Line: Listen, sunhee. %come april when nightingales sing in the backwoods Last Line: Until morning finds her gone out of sight Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: By the two windows before me, the two Last Line: Tempests a libation of this drop of ink Subject(s): Rain; Weather RAIN, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a drummer's brush, Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by EDWARD A. DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Autumn here sounds the same Last Line: Only their dark regulation %will be left. Only that Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons RAIN, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dragons love the world in rain Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by ALICE M. FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Fickle rain! Last Line: Of fickle rain. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: There are so many kinds of rain Last Line: And leaving to exalt or jade. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RAIN, by DOROTHEA GOODTIME Poem Text First Line: I love to think of rain as drops Last Line: Of some cherubic bard. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One evening as we were lounging in his apartment in a relaxed mood Last Line: The substance of the land into the sea Subject(s): Rain; Water RAIN, by EBENEZER JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the wind, more than the snow Last Line: Through the soft sunny lines of the shower. Subject(s): Nature; Rain RAIN, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is some peculiar mood Last Line: As saxons crouching in the cold. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's all very well for you Last Line: And invite you down again! Subject(s): Kisses; Rain; Tears RAIN, by M. C. LESKARSEN Poem Text First Line: Your kisses are like the cold Last Line: At many, many windows. . . . Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Rain RAIN, by NEWMAN LEVY Poem Source First Line: On the ilse of pago pago, land of palm trees, rice and sago Subject(s): Islands; Life; Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Women RAIN, by RANDALL MANN Poem Source First Line: This is the rain Last Line: The ground, lied god, in the beginning Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RAIN, by VALERIE PATTERSON NAPANANGKA Poem Source First Line: It's raining, %what does it rain for? For everything Last Line: Oh', it's so good when it rains Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Rain RAIN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon it rained, then Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods RAIN, by PATRICIA PRIME Poem Source First Line: In this rain-soaked Last Line: Hailstones pleting Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The april rain falls quietly, / with soft caress for bush and tree Last Line: December rain, december rain. Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Spring; Water; Weather RAIN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, the queen must not look upon Last Line: With your wet nipples in the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Togetherness RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It hain't no use to grumble and complane Last Line: W'y, rain's my choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Wet Weather Talk Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Rain; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers RAIN, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: The sound of the rain is like the voice of a mystic Last Line: Then the dead stand up and live again. Subject(s): Life; Rain RAIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fitful alternations of the rain Last Line: Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is falling all around Last Line: And on the ships at sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 6 Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is raining all around Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain Last Line: Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Rain; Solitude; World War I; Loneliness; First World War RAIN, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text 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 RAIN, by ROBERT PAUL TURBEVILLE Poem Text First Line: Stumbling down a cobbled street Last Line: Cluttered in the antique store? Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The rain it raineth every day Last Line: But more upon the just, because %the unjust hath the just's umbrella Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have always hated the rain Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lima...In lima it's raining Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by HAROLD VAN KIRK Poem Text First Line: Now flows in filmy patterns from / the sky Last Line: It rains. ...... Subject(s): Rain RAIN, by RACHEL L. WHITE Poem Text First Line: O rain, why come on sunday Last Line: Sometimes I make mistakes. Subject(s): Rain; Sabbath; Water; Sunday RAIN, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: The cadavers of memory grow quickly in the night Last Line: Like a chrysalis in the heart of the mountain Subject(s): Memory; Rain RAIN, by LILLIAN E. ZELTZER Poem Text First Line: Rain Last Line: The rain ... Subject(s): Rain RAIN AFTER DROUGHT, by EVE P. COX Poem Text First Line: The dripping of the raindrops Last Line: Are washed clean by welcome rain! Subject(s): Rain RAIN AFTER DROUGHT, by ALLAN PARK PATON Poem Text First Line: Am I awake, or is it a dream? Last Line: Welcome reviver! Hurrah, for the rain! Subject(s): Rain RAIN AFTER DROUGHT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the small feet of the rain Last Line: Until the dawn began. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Rain RAIN AFTER SNOW, by ELIZABETH CROW Poem Text First Line: Crystal and silver is this day Last Line: Of beauty through a crystal case. Subject(s): Rain; Snow RAIN AND I, by NELL EZELL Poem Text First Line: Drop after silver drop Last Line: Which is the wearier of us two, rain? Subject(s): Rain RAIN AT DAWN, by NORINE WINTROWE Poem Text First Line: I hear distant laughter Last Line: Coming up the sky. Subject(s): Dawn; Rain; Sunrise RAIN AT NIGHT, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are you awake? Last Line: We shall not hear, we shall not ever know. %o love, I had forgot that we must die Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Rain RAIN AT READING, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We had gathered under a tent in the park Subject(s): Rain; Poetry & Poets RAIN AT WILDWOOD, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain fell like grass growing Last Line: On the wood's floor released %tangy dews and ozones Subject(s): Rain RAIN BETWEEN, by TIMOTHY HOUGHTON Poem Source First Line: For a short time I'd been at my desk Last Line: Above the grass shining strangely %in the gray light Subject(s): Rain RAIN CLOUDS, by ELIZABETH-ELLEN LONG Poem Source First Line: Along a road Last Line: With wild-flower frills Subject(s): Clouds; Rain RAIN COUNTRY, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods are sodden, Subject(s): Rain RAIN EFFECT, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bride and a groom sitting in an open buggy Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Rain; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAIN FALLS ON HER GLYPTIC EYELIDS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Rain RAIN FOR NINETEEN HOURS, by DAVID BRESKIN Poem Source First Line: Delicious day of tent and rain, the wind Last Line: While fat dogs lay low, growling dreams of meat Subject(s): Rain RAIN HAS RETURNED, by ELIZABETH SCOBIE Poem Text First Line: The rains have returned to the cornlands Last Line: And flag-lilies blossom once more. Subject(s): Rain RAIN IN BIELSKO, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Men working Last Line: The rain gets lost. %its shadow marries sidewalk.' Subject(s): Rain; Shadows RAIN IN CAMP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The camp-fire smoulders and will not burn Last Line: Alas, shall there no man paint or tell. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Rain; Camps; Summer Camps RAIN IN HIGH MOUNTAINS, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the south wind herded a mass Last Line: Vanishing over hell-gate trail. Subject(s): Rain RAIN IN SUMMER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful is the rain! Last Line: In the rapid and rushing river of time. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Summer RAIN IN THE CITY, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: There is abroad this night in every place Last Line: Walk sleepless now and troubled in the rain. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life RAIN IN THE HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If this were all - oh! If this were all Last Line: "though ""into each life some rain must fall." Subject(s): Hearts;rain RAIN IN THE NIGHT, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the night the general good rain Last Line: God, send her back like rain to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Rain RAIN IN THE NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain in the night is falling Last Line: The pattering of the rain. Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Dejection RAIN IN THE PINE GROVE, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Source First Line: You keep silent. On the threshold Last Line: Oh terrestial creature %by name %hermione Subject(s): Rain; Water RAIN INTERS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rains and then it rains and still it rains Last Line: That wars to finish hatreds have undone! Subject(s): Pain; Rain; Suffering; Misery RAIN MARCH, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The water falls, plick, plock, plack Last Line: The water falls and fills my sack. Subject(s): Rain; Water RAIN MOOD, by W. FRANCIS POTTER Poem Text First Line: Rain is beating upon my face Last Line: O come, and bring impassioned solitude! Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World RAIN MUSIC, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the dusty earth-drum Last Line: Calling life anew. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Rain RAIN ON A GRAVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds spout upon her / their waters amain Last Line: All her life's round. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Rain; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement RAIN ON CASTLE ISLAND, by KITAHARA HAKUSHU Poem Source First Line: Rain: %grey, rat-grey rain Last Line: Boat bobbing, sail distant, dim Subject(s): Rain RAIN ON FALL NIGHTS, by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL Poem Text First Line: It rained the night we buried him Last Line: Leaving some room for laughter? Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness RAIN ON THE BANANA LEAVES, by ZHU WUXIA Poem Source First Line: It shatters my dream of grief Last Line: Except to vent feelings of separation Subject(s): Absence; Rain RAIN ON THE PRAIRIES, by PAUL CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: What the eye sees remains Last Line: The legs of rain dangling %over the disappearing ridges Subject(s): Prairies; Rain RAIN ON THE ROOF, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud on my roof the regiments of rain Last Line: Where only silence and her legions creep. Subject(s): Rain RAIN ON THE ROOF (1), by COATES KINNEY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the humid shadows hover Last Line: By the patter of the rain. Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood RAIN ON THE ROOF (2), by COATES KINNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the showery vapors gather over all the starry spheres Last Line: Which is played upon the shingles by the patter of the rain. Subject(s): Rain RAIN POOL, by BEATRICE MARY BILLING Poem Text First Line: All yesterday it rained Last Line: How shallow depths reflect infinity. Subject(s): Rain RAIN POOL, by DAISY FAULKNER HICKERSON Poem Text First Line: I glimpsed a lovely apparition Last Line: "in countless circlets, meeting and sweeping into one." Subject(s): Rain RAIN PSALM, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: The sky was a somber cave of water Last Line: And in the deep valley fields a partridge whistled Subject(s): Rain; Thunder; Water RAIN RIDERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I heard a rat-tat-too Last Line: The riders of the rain had gone %to tramp on other children's roofs Subject(s): Rain RAIN SONG, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't raining rain to me Last Line: It's raining violets. Variant Title(s): April Rain;a Song For April Subject(s): April; Rain RAIN SONG, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The radio blares “dialogue of souls Last Line: Those who despair Subject(s): Rain; Despair; Youth; Family Life; Coming Of Age; Relatives RAIN SONG FROM THE RIO PUEBLOS, by ANONYMOUS - NATIVE AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: People of the middle heaven Last Line: Rain! Rain! Rain! Subject(s): Rain RAIN STORM, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain washed the coat of the wind Last Line: With the purity that fell from heaven Subject(s): Rain RAIN, RAIN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rain, rains, april rain Last Line: And see you falling far and wide Subject(s): Rain; April RAIN-CHARM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, rain, go away; come again another day Last Line: Seems zif jus' th' days it pours I most want t' be outdoors! Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood RAIN-DRENCHED ROSES, by NANETTE NICHOLS COBB Poem Text First Line: In the brisk early hours of the morning Last Line: Where the clusters are drenched by the rain. Subject(s): Rain RAIN-FRESH, by VERNONA CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: It is eleven Last Line: He fears will drown. Subject(s): Rain RAIN-SONGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain streams down like harp-strings from the sky Last Line: He plays upon the harp-strings of the rain. Subject(s): African Americans; Rain; Negroes; American Blacks RAIN-WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gentleness of rain was in the wind Subject(s): Rain RAINBOW-ROOM, by LILLIAN EVERTS Poem Text First Line: Almost any rainbow Last Line: Or a tear-stained heart. . . . Subject(s): Rain RAINDROPS ON YOUR GLASSES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Reading the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Rain RAINFALL, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the west, where darkling storm-clouds float Last Line: The loud, crisp whiteness of the nearing rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Rain; Weather RAINPATTER, by DIANA KEARNY POWELL Poem Text First Line: Fall lightly, rain, the earth will be Last Line: For hearts are bound with cords of rain. Subject(s): April; Earth; Rain; World RAINS THAT NEVER FALL FELL IN MY HOUSE, by NEIL ROLLINSON Poem Source First Line: I turned on the tap, the drain belches Last Line: The whole of africa's rainfell fell in my house tonight Subject(s): Houses; Rain; Water RAINY AFTERNOON, by FLORENCE S. PAGE Poem Text First Line: Great pine-trees, gauzy in the mist Last Line: The lightning -- the keen memory of your face. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Rain; Trees RAINY DAY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has been raining all morning Last Line: As we all go bobbing out to the open sea Subject(s): Day; Rain RAINY DAY; FOR JOHN LEE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today it's raining on the trees Last Line: Received a home Subject(s): Rain RAINY NIGHT, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: It's raining...Don't sleep yet Last Line: Tomorrow, a new race Subject(s): Rain RAINY NIGHT, by DANIEL WHITEHEAD HICKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a night for long rememberings Last Line: Your heart will beat with hours that are gone. Subject(s): Rain RAINY NIGHT, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Black of night; soft-dripping rain Last Line: Alone, in darkness, my heart grieves. Subject(s): Melancholy; Mourning; Rain; Tears; Water; Dejection; Bereavement RAINY NIGHTS, by NANNIE LAURA FORTSON Poem Text First Line: By day my lawn is stark and bare Last Line: Will turn my lake to barren lawn. Subject(s): Lawns; Rain RAINY SEASON, by HARRIET GRAY BLACKWELL Poem Text First Line: Now is the time of rain Last Line: And blossoms with the garden. Subject(s): Rain RAINY SPELL, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: And so we stood distraught who came too late Last Line: To shine on an irrevocable deed. Subject(s): Rain RAINY SUNDAY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text 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 RAINY WEATHER, by YU KYONGHWAN Poem Source First Line: Stone wall fallen under rainy weather Last Line: I put it off till tomorrow and wash my dirty hands Subject(s): Rain RAINY WOODS, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wood thrush, crying Last Line: Oh, bird, I too am broken upon this night! Subject(s): Rain RAINY-DAY NOTES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rasping rain runs down the pane Last Line: Anon, some hint of rapture? Subject(s): Fate; Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Rain; Destiny; Male-female Relations RANDOM JOTTINGS FACING THE RAIN, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Overnight rain pounds and patters, summer heat abates Last Line: My gaze fixed on clouds over the river, alone I lean against the door Subject(s): Rain REASONS FOR RAIN, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: We gather roday on the doorstone Last Line: When the pony rolled over and the cattle %kicked up their heels Subject(s): Rain; Ranch Life RED RAIN, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: February rain, red rain, Last Line: Is silently spread on the south yangtze Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; Villages REJOICING IN THE RAINY SEASON: 1, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rainy season's clouds now mark Last Line: To utter songs of joy Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Krishna (god); Rain; Transcendentalism REJOICING IN THE RAINY SEASON: 2, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fill up with water, cloud, and come! Last Line: The lucky come to you Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Krishna (god); Rain; Transcendentalism REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: PRAYER TO CONJURE AWAY THE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The chirping frog his joy betrays. It rains upon the seine and oise Last Line: Shine on every side of me. Egobille and mille -- merci. Subject(s): Prayer; Rain REPRISE, by JARED CARTER Poem Source First Line: Only an evening wind that comes at last Last Line: So long forgotten, out of dark rains past Subject(s): Nature; Rain REQUIESCAT, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will go out to the night and the wind Last Line: Out in the wind and rain. Subject(s): Night; Rain; Bedtime RHYME AFTER RAIN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starry-eyed is april morn Last Line: Life travels fast! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Rain RHYME FOR THE PROCURESS IN SPRINGTIME, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The first spring rain cools a cup of tea too hot to drink Last Line: Lift your skirts, ladies-the canal's at the door %lapping for your babies Subject(s): Rain; Spring RUINOUS RAINS, by FU HSIEN Poem Source First Line: Lift your feet and you sink deeper in the mud! Last Line: Firewood and grain more precious than bright pearls Subject(s): Rain RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thin brown stain Subject(s): Rain; Fear SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds Last Line: Face down, and calls on you. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery SAND, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I am not the subject %I am god's strongbox Last Line: I made no decision to look %either down or up Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food And Eating; Rain SCENE AFTER A SUMMER SHOWER, by ANDREWS NORTON Poem Text First Line: The rain is o'er. How dense and bright Last Line: And mid this living light expire. Subject(s): Rain SEAWEED WEATHER, by GARDNER MCFALL Poem Source First Line: For three days we've been enveloped by rain Last Line: In seaweed weather, to ride the dark squall out Subject(s): Rain; Weather SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 5, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds Last Line: Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light. Subject(s): Rain; Wisdom SHE WEEPS OVER RAHOON, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on rahoon falls softly, softly falling Last Line: And muttering rain. Subject(s): Love; Rain SIGNS OF RAIN [OR, FOUL WEATHER], by EDWARD JENNER Poem Text First Line: The hollow winds begin to blow Last Line: 40 our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Nature; Rain; Weather SILVER RAIN, by MARY ANNE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: The silver needles of the rain Last Line: For oh, it's sowing weather. Subject(s): Rain SINGING BRANCH, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING Poem Text First Line: If you had never loved me then, oh then Last Line: Beneath whose singing branch our love has been. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Love; Rain; Spring SKETCHES OF THE TEXAS PRAIRIE: 'APRIL RAINS', by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: There is magic in the april rains Last Line: Of vivid texas flowers. Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Rain; Plains - Texas SLEEK FOR THE LONG FLIGHT, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: Rain in quick eight notes Last Line: Different, you said, %and almost good Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; New York City; Rain SMALL LIGHT FROM OUR WINDOW, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: When no one is home Subject(s): Rain; Water SOLACE, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: My lady, my lady Last Line: Life was rained away Subject(s): Rain SOME SWEET DAY, by LEWIS J. BATES Poem Text First Line: Into all lives some rain must fall Last Line: Weaving for all a golden crown. Subject(s): Rain SONG, by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHISON Poem Text First Line: It would have been easier without rain Last Line: Oh, it shouldn't have come in the rain. Subject(s): Rain SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are scented with woods after rain Last Line: And the raindrop shed from the daisy's eye. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but sweet music wakes Last Line: My own beloved! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG (8), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were the drop of rain Last Line: With maiden kisses three. Subject(s): Rain; Water SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth Last Line: Lulling us from many woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World SONG OF THE RAIN CHANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far as man can see Last Line: Comes the rain with me Subject(s): Rain SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 12, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "shower, shower!" Last Line: Warm us young ones Subject(s): Rain;russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 14, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain-wind from the east Last Line: There, there, sweetheart! Subject(s): Rain; Wind SONNET, by JAMES PLAYSTED WOOD Poem Text First Line: I might have been a hawk's scream, harsh Last Line: And tremble round the cynic laws of chance. Subject(s): Rain SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is this august weather? Nay, not so Last Line: Cheer up there can be nothing worse to mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): August; Rain; Weather SOUND OF RAIN, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I notice the surprise %of people who look at me as I pass Subject(s): Rain SOUND OF RAIN, by CHU YO-HAN Poem Source First Line: It is raining Last Line: Rain is raining to fetch glad tidings %for my private joy Subject(s): Rain SOUND OF RAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I close my eyes Last Line: Man, %what are you doing!' Subject(s): Crying; Prisons And Prisoners; Rain; Tears SPECIAL EFFECTS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My shirts on the line Last Line: In your body Subject(s): Rain SPECIFICATION, by THELMA PHLEGAR Poem Text First Line: I'll never wed a woman Last Line: Her hands when the rain comes down. Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Rain; Wombats; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPRING KISSES, by SALLIE GAFFNEY Poem Text First Line: A raindrop spattered on my upturned face Last Line: So god leaned down, and kissed me once again. Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING RAIN, by CH'IN KUAN Poem Source First Line: A night of gentle thunder fells a thousand catkins Last Line: Sapped of strength, hedgeroses sleep along dawn branches Subject(s): Rain SPRING RAIN, by FANG WEIYI Poem Source First Line: Along the springtime river, new rain reaches my western window Last Line: In the old garden that must be a partridge calling Subject(s): Rain SPRING RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The smoke of our campfire lowers Last Line: The throb and hiss of the rain Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Rain; Spring SPRING RAIN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I had forgotten Last Line: In a rush of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Rain SPRING RAIN, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Dark rain clouds, drizzle like silk yarns Last Line: Grieving in a lonely city, I listen to the sad sound of horns Subject(s): Rain STARTING TO RAIN, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Distracted, I leave %the therapist's office Last Line: How did they manage %to make themselves heard? Subject(s): Grief; Psychoanalysis; Rain; Tears STORM'S PAST, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Whirl of wet rose leaves on the gravelled path Last Line: "these sing to summer dusk, ""storm's past! Storm's past!" Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Storms STORMS, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After her tired dogs Subject(s): Rain; Storms STRONG MALE RAIN, by HERSHMAN R. JOHN Poem Source First Line: The female rain summoned cool dots Last Line: I began whipping my horse trying to escape the storms Subject(s): Rain STUDIES FOR PICTURES: 2. THE NEIGHBOR, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How cool and wet the lowlands lie Last Line: They bring a welcome rain to mine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Neighbors; Rain SUDDEN JOURNEY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I'm seven in the open field-- Last Line: Of all those who reach earth by falling Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood SUDDEN JOURNEY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I'm seven in the open field-- Last Line: Running, running in the hard, cold plentitude %of all those who reach earth by falling Subject(s): Children; Rain SUDDEN RAIN IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by STEPHEN BURT Poem Source First Line: Plush hills, the raw materials, fall away Last Line: I'm not with you. I will be with you soon Subject(s): Absence; Mountains; Rain SUGGESTIONS IN BLACK & WHITE, by PRISCILLA ATKINS Poem Source First Line: It has been raining, faces of angels Last Line: Cotton-gray smoke gathers in fists %at the tips of branches Subject(s): Colors; Rain SUMMER RAIN, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick lay the dust, uncomfortably white Last Line: Joy filled the brook, and comfort cheered the field. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Nature; Rain SUMMER RAIN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night our room was outer-walled with rain Subject(s): Rain SUMMER RAIN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night our room was outer-walled with rain Last Line: Torches against the wall of cool, silver rain Subject(s): Rain SUMMER RAIN, by APOLLON NIKOLAYEVICH MAIKOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden rain! Golden rain! Out of the sky!' Last Line: "in the full granaries fragrant with rye." Alternate Author Name(s): Maykov, Apollon Nikolaycich Subject(s): Rain; Water SUMMER RAIN, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Against the window pane Last Line: Issues from the nostrils beneath %the mask of death Subject(s): Rain SUMMER RAINSTORM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet conversations, woodland incantations Last Line: And fields made lovely with the living god. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Rain SUMMER SHOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A drop fell on the apple tree / another on the roof Last Line: And signed the fete away. Subject(s): Rain; Summer SUMMER STORM, by JANE RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Swiftly rush the storm clouds Last Line: Silence, sunlight glinting on wet roof-tops. Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Storms; Summer SUMMER STORM IN SICILY, by LAURA ANNA STORTONI Poem Source First Line: After the summer storm Last Line: Hiding %in the palace of the wind Subject(s): Italy; Rain; Storms SUN AND RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the sun and rain have been Last Line: Their wet eyes heavenward with these of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Baptism; Flowers; God; Rain; Roses; Christenings SUN HOLIDAY, by NORINE FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: The sun has gone on a holiday Last Line: May not come again. Subject(s): Rain SUNDAY RAIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The window screen / is trying to do Last Line: Only the words / across Subject(s): Rain; Crossword Puzzles SUNDAY RAIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The window screen %is trying to do Last Line: But appears to know %only vertical words Subject(s): Rain SURRENDER, by OLIVE W. BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the rain in my garden Last Line: Peace in my heart again. Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness SUUM CUIQUE (2), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has spoiled the farmer's day Last Line: In rain, or sun, or frost. Subject(s): Rain SWEET ROUMANIAN TONGUE, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drew down the curse of heaven on her umbrella Subject(s): Rain; Wasps; Yellow Jackets TEMPEST-TOST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In a flash the rain roars down Last Line: There's a whispering promise-refrain. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Rain; Salvation; Storms TEN STANZAS ON THE AUTUMN RAIN: 1, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: I was sick of hearing the rain drip Last Line: Beyond a curtain of pearls %an azure-colored screen Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Rain TEN THIRTY A.M., by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How much rain can down pour Last Line: In any least degree Subject(s): Rain TEN THIRTY A.M., by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How much rain can down pour Last Line: Inside the house or me %in any least degree Subject(s): Rain THANK GERARD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Cascade: rain torrential rain Subject(s): Rain; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THAT-AIR YOUNG-UN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That-air young-un ust to set Last Line: "now what's it a-talkin' of?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Rain; Childhood THE APRIL RAIN, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The april rain! The april rain! Last Line: In your pure and healthful play. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): April; Rain THE BALLADE OF THE COMING RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning swoons in its highest heat Last Line: O then is the time to look for rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain THE BLESSED RAIN, by JENNIE SCHMITZ Poem Text First Line: The rain, sweet balm to nature Last Line: For all the blessed rain. Subject(s): Rain THE BLESSED RAIN, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, dost thou complain Last Line: For every drop that quivers on a clod! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Thirst; Wine THE BOMBARDMENT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city Last Line: Roars and mutters. Boom! Subject(s): Bombs; Rain; Storms THE CALL, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lunged out of sleep toward the ringin Last Line: For a moment like still more rain Subject(s): Sickness; Mothers; Rain THE DARK AND FALLING SUMMER, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain was full of the freshness Subject(s): Rain; Summer THE DISAPPOINTMENT, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tears to her mother poor harriet came Last Line: "nor will disappointment ensue. " Subject(s): Disappointment; Mnemonics; Rain THE DUNES, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the sand the slant rain falls in vain Last Line: Pricks space in universal emptiness. Subject(s): Dunes; Rain THE FARM AGAIN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamy rain comes down Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass. Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRST BLUEBIRD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jest rain and snow! And rain again! Last Line: Hopped out o' bed with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Rain; Snow THE FIRST NIGHT OF FALL AND FALLING RAIN, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The common rain had come again Subject(s): Rain THE FLOWER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not see at that hour Last Line: The blindness -- the blindness -- that ruined me! Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Moon; Night; Rain; Destiny; Bedtime THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw her. 'twas long ago Last Line: With a different sound must fall! Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Flutes; Love; Rain; Roses; Seasons; Fall THE FOUNTAIN IN THE RAIN, by KATHARINE R. SIEGERT Poem Text First Line: When the storm clouds loose their torrents Last Line: Like the fountain in the rain. Subject(s): Fountains; Rain THE FOUR WINDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The four winds blow across the sky Last Line: (love and life and death together!) Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Rain; Sun; Wind THE FURY OF RAINSTORMS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain drums down like red ants, Subject(s): Rain THE GRASS IS VERY GLAD FOR RAIN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: For washing grass and window pane Subject(s): Grass; Rain THE GREAT YELLOW RIVER INUNDATION IN CHINA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of september Last Line: For fear god punished you likewise for your iniquities. Subject(s): China; Drowning; Floods; Rain; Rivers; Water THE HARPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a drift of faded blossoms Last Line: And god's companionship! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Rain; Lyres THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light Last Line: And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Faces; Rain; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE JOB, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, god, it won't come right! It won't come right! Last Line: —from sky lines and wood smoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Creation; Lightning; Rain; Storms; Thought; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Thinking THE LANE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one can take away from me Last Line: And the sound of the everlasting sea! Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean THE LAST FAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered where the cuckoo fills Last Line: In the ancient stillness brooding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Merlin; Rain; Rest; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE LAST MAN: METAPHOR OF RAIN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An amorous cloud Last Line: Lets down her rustling hair over the sun. Subject(s): Metaphor; Rain; Similes THE LAST MAN: RAIN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blue, between yon star-nailed cloud Last Line: Is strung with rain, like a fantastic lyre. Subject(s): Rain THE LATTER RAIN, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The latter rain, it falls in anxious haste Last Line: Declare to man it was not sent in vain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain THE LAUGHTER OF THE RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My very soul smiles as I listen to Last Line: The universe to music dripping-wet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Rain; Soul THE LULL, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lull in rain Subject(s): Rain THE MILLION DOLLAR RAIN, by HELEN PURCELL ROADS Poem Text First Line: Dawn after dawn flung up the sky Last Line: To watch the miracle. Subject(s): Dawn; Money; Rain; Sunrise THE NEW COTTAGE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: On earth two lovers can you meet more thrilled and overjoyed than Last Line: The vale of charms that never cease? Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Rain THE OLD STORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the bitter shafts of love Last Line: "as I might have -- in that hour!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Prayer; Rain; Suffering; Misery THE RAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear leaves drinking rain Last Line: Twill be a lovely sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Rain THE RAIN, by DOROTHY CAROL HALEY Poem Text First Line: The rain came down with rhythmic beat Last Line: Make pools upon the ground. Subject(s): Rain THE RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain! The rain! The rain! Last Line: O the rain! The rain! The rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Rivers THE RAIN, by ROBERTA S. VAN LOBEN SELS Poem Text First Line: Because I heard the rain tonight and fled Last Line: To find quick april in the rain at night. Subject(s): Rain THE RAIN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rhyme of the rain on the roof Last Line: Tears of sorrow and tears of sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Rain THE RAIN COMES, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and rain and lightest snow Last Line: Still she sits unheeding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Water; Lightning Rods THE RAIN COMES SOBBING TO THE DOOR, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night grows dark, and weird, and cold; and thick drops patter on the pane Last Line: The rain comes sobbing to the door! Subject(s): Rain THE RAIN ON THE ROOF, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the eaves is the haunt I love! Last Line: The rain on the roof. Subject(s): Life; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Thought; Thinking THE RAIN SEEMS POSSESSED, by MAX DAUTHENDEY Poem Text First Line: I hear the threshing rain Last Line: Then I can see the blue. Subject(s): Rain THE RAIN UPON THE ROOF, by MRS. F. B. GAGE Poem Text First Line: Long ago a poet dreaming Last Line: So the rain upon the roof. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rain THE RAIN-POOL, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like a little pool Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Life; Rain THE RAINBOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fairies built a bridge Last Line: From here to far-away. Subject(s): April; Rain; Rainbows; Spring THE RAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've watched the ground-hog's shadow Last Line: Did you ever see the comin' of the rains? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Rain; Spring; Water; Plains THE RAINS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river rises / and the rains keep coming. Subject(s): Rain; Fear; Family Life; Relatives THE RAINY DAY, by MARY E. LEE Poem Text First Line: I love to look on a day like this / of never-tiring rain Last Line: In a fresh and an answering strain. Subject(s): Rain THE RAINY DAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary Last Line: Some days must be dark and dreary. Subject(s): Consolation; Rain THE RAINY MORNING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn of the day was dreary Last Line: Melted in mists of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Light; Morning; Rain; Wind THE RAINY SEASON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've never seen such a flat black ocean Last Line: And the gold, the pink, lavender rocks Subject(s): Mexico; Rain THE RAINY SEASON IN CALIFORNIA, by JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE Poem Text First Line: The rains have come, the winds are shrill Last Line: My soul enchanted soareth free. Alternate Author Name(s): Yellow Bird Subject(s): California; Rain THE RAINY SUMMER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's much afoot in heaven and earth this year Last Line: Wild honey to cold cells. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Rain; Summer THE RECONCILIATION, by LAURA M. GREGG Poem Text First Line: The sun and april were at outs Last Line: Were gems for her adorning. Subject(s): April; Rain; Sun THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that desolate land and lone, / where the big horn and yellowstone Last Line: In the year of a hundred years. Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Revenge THE SHOWER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On every budding leaf and flower Last Line: Thy life, thy grace, thy light Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rain; Tears; Water; Showers & Showering THE SHOWER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape, like the awed face of a child Last Line: Drenched with the love of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Soul; Storms THE SOUND OF RAIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Older than anything else in the world Last Line: That besogs the day and the night, and the end of night, and the morrow. Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sound THE SOWERS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woe to the seed Last Line: It finds a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Storms; Water; Ocean THE STORM, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: Mad swirling wind Last Line: As the storm wind dies. Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Thunder; Wind THE THANK-OFFERING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overbeck, the forest preacher Last Line: "loveth god, alone." Subject(s): Churches; New York City - Colonial Period; Praise; Rain; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology THE THATCH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out alone in the winter rain Last Line: In on to the upper chamber floors. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Grief; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Straw; Sorrow; Sadness THE TRAIN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Accident could be a god to little boys Last Line: We said, with intonation, what a shame. Subject(s): Accidents; Maine (state); Railroads; Rain; Strangers; Railways; Trains THE TRUANT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen! 'tis the rain Last Line: Than the selfsame deed is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Rain THE VICTORY OF THE BEET-FIELDS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green miles of leafy peace are spread Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Beets; Rain THE VOICE OF THE RAIN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And who art thou? Said I to the soft-falling shower Last Line: Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.) Subject(s): Rain; Rivers THE WIND AND THE RAIN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That far-off day the leaves in flight Last Line: That have none left to stay Subject(s): Rain THEN AND NOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet's Biography First Line: The rain / is speaking it pelts Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rain; Time THEN AND NOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain %is speaking it pelts Last Line: Aside and go back to sleep Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rain; Time THERE IS STILL SOMETHING, by LUCIANO ERBA Poem Source First Line: There is still something to be learned Last Line: Vertical, like the pupils of their eyes Subject(s): Learning; Rain THIS-THAT, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: It scratches on the door Last Line: Rocked in the wind's cradle Subject(s): Emptiness; Grief; Rain; Storms; Water; Wind THOSE OLD SONGS, by ANNE MATHILDE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Patter, patter, tip-toe light Last Line: Rain is publishing a book! Subject(s): Rain THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer winds is sniffin' round Last Line: And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THOUSAND WATERS OF APRIL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Go clouds of cotton and ash Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Rain; Water TITAN'S JEWEL, by RUTH HUGHES Poem Text First Line: The lake has the lustre of shadowed metal Last Line: Catching the day like a titan's jewel. Subject(s): Rain TO LULU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only love Last Line: Like spokes of the same wheel! Subject(s): Flowers; God; Love; Pain; Rain; Sleep; Soul; Suffering; Misery TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind may blaw the lee-lang way Last Line: This happy lee. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean TO THE RAIN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, rain, go away / come again another day Last Line: Little johnny wants to play. Subject(s): Rain TROPICAL MYTH, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain cast its net over the forest Last Line: That is how fireflies were born Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Weather TROPISM, by KATHLEEN O'TOOLE Poem Text First Line: Last night / the rain jewelled the window-pane Last Line: In the dead electric globe. Subject(s): Rain TWILIGHT ON BOSTON, by KENDRA BORGMANN Poem Source First Line: The decision had just turned to night Last Line: With sheets of rain spilling down, %the long, clear walls Subject(s): Boston; Night; Rain TWO PROMENADES SENTIMENTALES: 1. RAIN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the smooth black lacquer sea Last Line: Embodied in this ghostly hour. . . . Subject(s): Rain UNCLE, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: It never rains in kauai,' the resort manager bragged Last Line: Ready to explode, fire in the hold Subject(s): Chaos; Rain; Storms UNDER COVER, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: In the cedar forest %the rain drips Last Line: And it is. %it does Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Rain; Water UNDER GREAT LIGHT FLOODED CLOUDS, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The horse is sticky. If you touch it, it sticks to your hands like chewing Last Line: I mount, and am away Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Weather UNDER THE OAKS AT HOLMES HALL, OVERTAKEN BY RAIN, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A desert downpour in early spring Last Line: Of memory uncrowded with bliss or pain Subject(s): Rain URBAN RAIN, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The street people are sent scurrying to seek shelter wherever Last Line: The only rainbows are to be found Subject(s): Acid Rain VERY LOVELY, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldn't it be lovely if the rain came down Last Line: Wouldn't it be glorious? Wouldn't it be fun? Subject(s): Rain VILLANELLE OF RAINFALL, by ELMER GUSTAFSON Poem Text First Line: He will not come again Last Line: Merciless falls the rain. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness WAITING FOR THE RAIN, by JOHN SHAW NEILSON Poem Text First Line: The weather has been warm for a fortnight now or more Last Line: For soon we all will vanish like the rain. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rain; Sheep; Work; Workers WE IN THE SHAPE OF A WET FEATHER, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: From the springs, he said, set forth Last Line: Circular shadow on the springs, he said, a star bait in %flames Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Rain; Spring WE SHALL BE SATISFIED, by SUSAN KELLY PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: The course of the weariest river Last Line: "we shall be ""satisfied." Subject(s): Rain; Rainbows; Rivers; Sea; Ocean WE TO SIGH INSTEAD OF SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and rain! And rain and Last Line: This for our to-morrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Sighs; Singing & Singers WEATHER, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Umbrellas; Rain WEATHERS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the weather the cuckoo likes Last Line: And so do I. Subject(s): Birds; Rain WELL BEFORE DAWN I WOKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On the cabin roof Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Comfort; Nature; Rain WEST, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: New shoots out of the logging road Last Line: There's time for smoke to rise from the cooking fire %it is ambrosia to look and to see Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Thunder WET THURSDAY, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stiff wind off the channel Last Line: And the days, months, years, are endless Subject(s): Rain WET THURSDAY, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A stiff wind off the channel Last Line: The cat sleeps like an old campaigner %during this season of the long rains Subject(s): Rain WET WEATHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the english in me that loves the soft Last Line: And the sound of water calling, as it used to call at home. Subject(s): Absence; Rain; Separation; Isolation WHAT COULD BE LOVELIER THAN TO HEAR, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And hear the thunder cross the sky %with elephant tread Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Rain; Summer WHAT DOES THE SEED WAIT FOR UNDERGROUND?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: And grow and grow till the summer's done Subject(s): Seeds; Rain WHEN IT RAINS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it rains, and with the rain Last Line: With the golden bow of promise as it drips. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Rain; Tears; Paradise WHEN LET BY RAIN, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flippering soul, / why dost between the nippers dwell? Last Line: Burns up the building: lord forbid the same. Variant Title(s): Let By Rain;an Address To The Soul Occasioned By A Rain Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Rain WHEN THE RAIN CAME DOWN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We watched the rain Last Line: We could laugh and have our fun! Subject(s): April; Rain WHITE, by JANE HEAP Poem Source First Line: Sharp, empty air....Out of the black nouths of engines white smoke Last Line: Long white laugh at us like maniac Subject(s): Clouds; Pain; Rain; Thunder WHITE BIRCHES, by MARY BRADLEY BRAMHALL Poem Text First Line: Against the upper darkness - the dark pines Last Line: On this morning of silver rain. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Fields; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHO IS TAPPING AT MY WNDOW?, by ALHAMBRA GEORGIA DEMING Poem Source First Line: It's not I,' said the cat Last Line: It is I,' said the rain. %'tapping at your windowpane' Subject(s): Rain WHO WAS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was / authoring rain Last Line: The incredible achilles tendon . . . Subject(s): Rain WHOSE REQUIEM IS THE RAIN, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: Falling so hard it wakes Last Line: Who we briefly pretend we are Subject(s): Rain WIND, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: From the south you bring rain Last Line: Plague breaaths flower seeds %blow blow Subject(s): Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Weather; Wind WIND AND THE RAIN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That far-off day the leaves in flight Last Line: Rain was the tears adopted by my eyes %that have none left to stay Subject(s): Rain WIND WILL COME FROM THE SOUTH, by CIRCE MAIA Poem Source First Line: A wind will come from the south with unleashed rain Last Line: Down the stairs, from the balconies, %calling to each other Subject(s): Cleanliness; Human Rights; Rain; Storms; Wind WINDLESS RAIN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain, the desolate rain Last Line: The long, low, whispering rain! Subject(s): Rain WINDSHIELD WIPERS, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Source First Line: The bus uses up the road Last Line: This wetness no obstacle, %this road no map Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Rain; Roads WINTER RAIN, by EVA BERRY HARRIS Poem Text First Line: The day is gray and chill and bleak Last Line: Still leaden gloom and whistling rain! Subject(s): Rain; Tears; Water WINTER RAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every valley drinks Last Line: Or lily on the water. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Rain WINTER RAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on the roof, and rain Last Line: The range of charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Rain WINTER RAIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Falling upon the frozen world last night Last Line: I look straight in the world's bold eyes, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Rain; Winter; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER-FEAR, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has come Last Line: The sun, then, god! What agony these days of rain! Subject(s): Fear; Rain; Wind; Winter WIPERS 2, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Source First Line: The bigness of the arc going each way Last Line: A new thought the glass speaks, %come back, come back Subject(s): Rain; Windows WITH DAISY IN THE RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There are many occupations Last Line: When walking home with daisy in the rain. Subject(s): Children; Rain; Walking; Childhood WOODYARDS IN THE RAIN, by ANNE MARRIOTT Poem Source First Line: The smell of woodyards in the rain is strong Subject(s): Rain WRITTEN AT WHITE CLOUD HALL BESIDE WEST LAKE, by SU MAN-SHU Poem Source First Line: Where white clouds are deep Last Line: Fallen from that far off bell Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Thunder; Zen Buddhism WRITTEN DURING THE RAIN ONE NIGHT AND SENT BACK NORTH, by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source First Line: You asked when I was coming back Last Line: And speak back about this moment %of night rain in hills of ba? Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Rain WYOMING RAIN, by LORA B. HOOKER Poem Text First Line: All day long have I watched it streaming down Last Line: Save praying nuns, the tired priest, gray mist and rain. Subject(s): Rain YEAR'S FIRST RAIN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain comes %after long surcease in desert Last Line: Swollen already with the life to break at day Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water YOU, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slanting rain and a sky of gray Last Line: And you—at home! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Rain; Water; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness YOUTH, by LUCY KENT Poem Text First Line: The suddenness of life was mine Last Line: Was like a shoulder in the breeze. Subject(s): Life; March (month); Rain; Windows; Youth ZOO IN THE RAIN: THE PORCUPINE, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: A flip of a peacock's fan Last Line: Bristled with roughly motherly love Subject(s): Porcupines; Rain; Zoos ZOO IN THE RAIN: THE SNOW LEOPARD, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Something bellowed. %no one manned the zoo's ticket window Last Line: Like a page of national geographic Subject(s): Leopards; Rain; Zoos |
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