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The term "p%5Boems on rain" has been searched for 18 times on the American Poems site since June 22nd, 2007.
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1. The Rain - written by Robert Creeley
Read 5470 times on American Poems.
All night the sound had
come back again,
and again falls
this quite, persistent rain.
What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often? Is it
that never the ease,
even the hardness,
of rain falling
will have for me
something... (Read full poem)
2. Rain - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 7396 times on American Poems.
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.
I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can't do a... (Read full poem)
3. We to Sigh Instead of Sing - written by James Whitcomb Riley
Read 1115 times on American Poems.
"Rain and Rain! and rain and rain!"
Yesterday we muttered
Grimly as the grim refrain
That the thunders uttered:
All the heavens under cloud --
All the sunshine sleeping;
All the grasses limply bowed
With their weight of... (Read full poem)
4. Rain In My Heart - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 2727 times on American Poems.
There is a quiet in my heart
Like on who rests from days of pain.
Outside, the sparrows on the roof
Are chirping in the dripping rain.
Rain in my heart; rain on the roof;
And memory sleeps beneath the gray
And the windless sky and brings no... (Read full poem)
5. Spring Rain - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 4337 times on American Poems.
I thought I had forgotten,
But it all came back again
To-night with the first spring thunder
In a rush of rain.
I remembered a darkened doorway
Where we stood while the storm swept by,
Thunder gripping the earth
And lightning scrawled on the... (Read full poem)
6. After Us - written by Connie Wanek
Read 1466 times on American Poems.
I don't know if we're in the beginning
or in the final stage.
-- Tomas Tranströmer
Rain is falling through the roof.
And all that prospered under the sun,
the books that opened in the morning
and closed at night, and all... (Read full poem)
7. Sleepless - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 2916 times on American Poems.
If I could have your arms tonight-
But half the world and the broken sea
Lie between you and me.
The autumn rain reverberates in the courtyard,
Beating all night against the barren stone,
The sound of useless rain in the desolate courtyard
Makes me... (Read full poem)
8. Oh, Gray And Tender Is The Rain - written by Lizette Woodworth Reese
From Spicewood.
Published in 1920.
Read 824 times on American Poems.
Oh, gray and tender is the rain,
That drips, drips on the pane!
A hundred things come in the door,
The scent of herbs, the thought of yore.
I see the pool out in the grass,
A bit of broken glass;
The red flags running wet and straight,
Down to the... (Read full poem)
9. Faure's Second Piano Quartet - written by James Schuyler
From A Few Days.
Published in 1985.
Read 424 times on American Poems.
On a day like this the rain comes
down in fat and random drops among
the ailanthus leaves---"the tree
of Heaven"---the leaves that on moon-
lit nights shimmer black and blade-
shaped at this third-floor window.
And there are bunches of small... (Read full poem)
10. Rain - written by Jack Gilbert
From Views of Jeopardy.
Published in 1962.
Read 2662 times on American Poems.
Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.
I... (Read full poem)
11. Suum Cuique - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 2968 times on American Poems.
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost:
Nature shall mind her own affairs,
I will attend my proper cares,
In rain, or sun, or frost.(Read full poem)
12. Monotone - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2967 times on American Poems.
The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
A face I know is... (Read full poem)
13. Storm Windows - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 1151 times on American Poems.
People are putting up storm windows now,
Or were, this morning, until the heavy rain
Drove them indoors. So, coming home at noon,
I saw storm windows lying on the ground,
Frame-full of rain; through the water and glass
I saw the crushed grass, how... (Read full poem)
14. A Net to Snare the Moonlight - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 557 times on American Poems.
[What the Man of Faith said]
The dew, the rain and moonlight
All prove our Father's mind.
The dew, the rain and moonlight
Descend to bless mankind.
Come, let us see that all men
Have land to catch the rain,
Have grass to snare... (Read full poem)
15. Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 2677 times on American Poems.
Beloved, let us once more praise the rain.
Let us discover some new alphabet,
For this, the often praised; and be ourselves,
The rain, the chickweed, and the burdock leaf,
The green-white privet flower, the spotted stone,
And all that welcomes... (Read full poem)
16. Song - written by H. D.
Read 8828 times on American Poems.
You are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
that beats through
the half-opened flowers
of the great flower tufts
thick on the black limbs
of an Illyrian apple bough.
Can honey distill such... (Read full poem)
17. Horses and Men in Rain - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2216 times on American Poems.
LET us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter’s day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the window,
And let us talk about milk wagon drivers and grocery delivery boys.
Let us keep our feet in wool slippers and mix hot punches—and... (Read full poem)
18. The Tortoise In Keystone Heights - written by Deborah Ager
From American Literary Review.
Published in 2002.
Read 3027 times on American Poems.
When I knew, it was raining.
Winter in decline. I was tired.
You in your soaked shirt diffused
into the western sky bulging with clouds,
speeding cars a few feet away—
why would they not slow down?
Though afternoon, a slip of moon
busied... (Read full poem)
19. Rain - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3012 times on American Poems.
a symphony orchestra.
there is a thunderstorm,
they are playing a Wagner overture
and the people leave their seats under the trees
and run inside to the pavilion
the women giggling, the men pretending calm,
wet cigarettes being thrown away,
Wagner... (Read full poem)
20. Women Washing Their Hair - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2121 times on American Poems.
THEY have painted and sung
the women washing their hair,
and the plaits and strands in the sun,
and the golden combs
and the combs of elephant tusks
and the combs of buffalo horn and hoof.
The sun has been good to women,
drying their heads of... (Read full poem)
21. Our little Kinsmen -- after Rain - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1366 times on American Poems.
Our little Kinsmen -- after Rain
In plenty may be seen,
A Pink and Pulpy multitude
The tepid Ground upon.
A needless life, it seemed to me
Until a little Bird
As to a Hospitality
Advanced and breakfasted.
As I of He, so God of Me
I pondered, may... (Read full poem)
22. Wet-weather Talk - written by James Whitcomb Riley
From Complete Works.
Published in 1916.
Read 2000 times on American Poems.
It hain't no use to grumble and complane;
It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice. --
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain,
W'y rain's my choice.
Men ginerly, to all intents --
Although they're apt to... (Read full poem)
23. Woman Work - written by Maya Angelou
Read 26580 times on American Poems.
I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta... (Read full poem)
24. Now i lay(with everywhere around)... (44) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 9711 times on American Poems.
Now i lay(with everywhere around)
me(the great dim deep sound
of rain;and of always and of nowhere)and
what a gently welcoming darkestness--
now i lay me down(in a most steep
more than music)feeling that sunlight is
(life and day are)only... (Read full poem)
25. you said Is (XIII) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 8990 times on American Poems.
you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?
Looking into
your eyes Nothing,i said,except the
air of spring smelling of never and... (Read full poem)
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