Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SOUND OF RAIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE 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 | ||||||||
Older than anything else in the world Is the sound of rain. Earth's without form again, and void, And the waters cover it. Land has not risen above its tidal plain, And grey is the gloom of all, in and around and above it. Life is an unborn brooding still On the face of the earth, And God has not found a way, yet, To dwell in the waters. And the sound of rain is a sound that is never still, And men have not come yet, nor the sons of men nor the daughters. No green thing is about; and no bird's wing Alights in branches. Time and space are steeped in a sound That is steeped in sorrow. Winds are unknown; there is only room for the sigh That besogs the day and the night, and the end of night, and the morrow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SOUND IS LIKE ANY OTHER by DAVID IGNATOW NATURAL MUSIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 35 by JAMES JOYCE WHAT THE MOTORCYCLE SAID by MONA VAN DUYN THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DRAGON VEIN by ANNE CARSON CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A CHARM TO BRING CHILDREN (EGYPT, A.D. 100) by CALE YOUNG RICE |
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