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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEFORE THE RAIN, by AMELIE RIVES Poet's Biography First Line: The blackcaps pipe among the reeds Last Line: The nimble-footed rain doth rush! Alternate Author Name(s): Troubetskoy, Princess | |||
THE blackcaps pipe among the reeds, And there'll be rain to follow; There is a murmur as of wind In every coign and hollow; The wrens do chatter of their fears While swinging on the barley-ears. Come, hurry, while there yet is time, Pull up thy scarlet bonnet. Now, sweetheart, as my love is thine, There is a drop upon it. So trip it ere the storm-hag weird Doth pluck the barley by the beard! Lo! not a whit too soon we're housed; The storm-witch yells above us; The branches rapping on the panes Seem not in truth to love us. And look where through the clover bush The nimble-footed rain doth rush! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAUCER; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MY LITTLE GIRL by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK THE RECONCILEMENT by JOHN SHEFFIELD IN THE GOLD ROOM by OSCAR WILDE THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS by ROBERT BROWNING THE PROPHET by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON UNFULFILLMENT by FRANCES LOUISA BUSHNELL LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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