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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 And now the thickened sky like a dark ceiling stood; down rushed the rain impetuous. - John Milton Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me. - James Herbert Morse The rain is o'er--How densely bright Yon pearly clouds reposing lie! Cloud above cloud, a glorious sight, Contrasting with the deep-blue sky! In grateful silence earth receives The general blessing; fresh and fair Each flower expands its little leaves, As glad the common joy to share. - Andrews Norton But, when the blackning Clouds in sprinkling Show'rs Distill, from the high Summits down the Rain Runs trickling; with the fertile Moisture chear'd, The Orchats smile; joyous the Farmers see Their thriving Plants, and bless the heav'nly Dew. - John Arthur Phillips All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. - Alexander Pope See daily show'rs rejoice the thirsty earth And bless the flow'ry buds' succeeding birth. - Matthew Prior For the rain it raineth every day. - William Shakespeare O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain than youthful April shall with all his showers; in summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still. - William Shakespeare When the splitting wind makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. - William Shakespeare 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) Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow in large effusion o'er the freshened world. - James Thomson (1) The kind refresher of the summer heats. - James Thomson (1) 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) 'Twas so; I saw thy birth. That drowsy lake From her faint bosom breath'd thee, the disease Of her sick waters, and infectious ease. But now at even, Too gross for heaven, Thou fall'st in tears, and weep'st for thy mistake. - Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist") The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair. - Jones Very Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. - Edmund Waller The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. - Nathaniel Parker Willis Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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