Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAIN, by HAROLD VAN KIRK First Line: Now flows in filmy patterns from / the sky Last Line: It rains. ...... Subject(s): Rain | ||||||||
I. NOW flows in filmy patterns from the sky The soundless vesture of the graying rain. Darkly it covers The massed green Of verdured trees. Slightly it hovers In mittant sheen On silver leaves. Let from the Earth A prescience arise Like censered mirth At Delphic sacrifice! Let there be tender odors telling Fruitions like deep music swelling! Revivified, Itensified, The grimed grass, The new-turned field. Mark the quiver Of the river Under the shiver Of the rain! A dispelled delusion Is the white illusion Of the dandelion. Forcelessly .. Soundlessly ... Ceaselessly. ... The remote rain encloses The plain With sheen Like dew-dark roses. II. Hear the swift slither Of rain in the gutters. ... Or the sharp dither Of motor-car chains! It rains. ....... From steel-shodden hoofs A too-hollow clangor Water hisses on roofs In overfilled drains! It rains. ...... A wind-broken dray horse Lies dead by the curb stone ... With voice that is curse hoarse The driver complains. It rains. ...... Stark, ghosty-hued faces .. Sodden odored folk hurry None to the same places. ... But all to their gains. It rains. ...... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DISTANT RAINFALL by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 32 by JAMES JOYCE HEAVY SUMMER RAIN by JANE KENYON CROWD CORRALLING by MARGARET AVISON THE RAIN-POOL by KARLE WILSON BAKER ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY by KENNETH KOCH ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO by GEORGE SANTAYANA |
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