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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Before the Rain A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field. - Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 215) He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. - Bible, Psalms (ch. LXXII, v. 6) We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. - George Carlin She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise. - Mary Mapes Dodge, How the Raid Comes--April Tho' the rain is on the river, Yet the sun is on the hill. - F. Wyville Home, Sunshine and Rain How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn. - Rossiter Johnson, Rhyme of the Rain For after all the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, An April Day And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Midnight Mass for the Dying Year (st. 4) The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Rainy Day The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane, Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Travels by the Fireside (st. 1) It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills. - Robert Loveman, April Rain, appeared in "Harper's Magazine", May, 1901 But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at V, i) I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cloud I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. - Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue II) The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Spring (l. 173)
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