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Subject: RAIN
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"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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rejoice!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Rain


BUCKETS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too much rain
Subject(s): Rain


CRUMPLED CANDY WRAPPER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We expect rain
Subject(s): Rain


EXULTATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LARGO, by BRIAN TEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have always hated the rain
Subject(s): Rain


RAIN, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods are sodden,
Subject(s): Rain


RAIN EFFECT, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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