Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk...more

Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
Remembering again that I shall die
And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks ...more

There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,...more

The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea....more

Suddenly, from all the green around you,
something-you don't know what-has disappeared;
you feel it creeping closer to the window,
in total silence. From the nearby wood...more

Like the touch of rain she was
On a man's flesh and hair and eyes
When the joy of walking thus
Has taken him by surprise:...more

Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray...more

call it the greenhouse effect or whatever
but it just doesn't rain like it used to.
I particularly remember the rains of the
depression era....more

My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read,
'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large
Down in the meadow, where is richer feed,
And will not mind to hit their proper targe....more

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You come to me quiet as rain not yet fallen
Afraid of how you might fail yourself your
dress seven summers old is kept open
in memory of sex, smells warm, of boys,...more

I hear leaves drinking rain;
I hear rich leaves on top
Giving the poor beneath
Drop after drop;...more

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,...more

Oh, Marcia,
I want your long blonde beauty
to be taught in high school,
so kids will learn that God...more

I want to fall on you like rain
upon a wildflower
Opening new reason from you
Scaring all the old bees away from...more

The great light cage has broken up in the air,
freeing, I think, about a million birds
whose wild ascending shadows will not be back,
and all the wires come falling down....more

In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning....more

An assortment of coloured umbrellas,
Fending off the rain,
I wonder if those, concealed underneath,
Have had lives disturbed by pain,...more

Open the window, and let the air
Freshly blow upon face and hair,
And fill the room, as it fills the night,
With the breath of the rain's sweet might....more

the vultures at the zoo
(all three of them)
sit very quietly in their
caged tree...more

I thought I had forgotten,
But it all came back again
To-night with the first spring thunder
In a rush of rain....more

Still falls the Rain---
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss---
Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails
Upon the Cross....more

The rain and the wind, the wind and the rain --
They are with us like a disease:
They worry the heart, they work the brain,
As they shoulder and clutch at the shrieking pane,...more

WHEN the sun comes after rain
And the bird is in the blue,
The girls go down the lane
Two by two....more

There trudges one to a merry-making
With sturdy swing,
On whom the rain comes down....more

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THEY sing their dearest songs--
He, she, all of them--yea,
Treble and tenor and bass.
And one to play; ...more

The April rain, the April rain,
Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;...more

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 talk about mail carriers and...more

First winter rain--
even the monkey
seems to want a raincoat....more

Early summer rain--
houses facing the river,
two of them....more

Spring rain
leaking through the roof
dripping from the wasps' nest....more

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,...more

A dark cloud of rain
drifted into my life
And for some time,
I felt good, happy......more

Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,
Then vanish, and die utterly.
One would not know that rain-drops fell
If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell....more

Rain on tinned roof
Rain on concrete
Rain soaking into sands
Rain on soft earth...more

All night the sound had
come back again,
and again falls
this quite, persistent rain....more

A ROBIN in the morning,
In the morning early,
Sang a song of warning,
"There'll be rain, there'll be rain."...more

A slight rain comes, bathed in dawn light.
I hear it among treetop leaves before mist
Arrives. Soon it sprinkles the soil and,
Windblown, follows clouds away. Deepened...more

The common rain had come again
Slanting and colorless, pale and anonymous,
Fainting falling in the first evening
Of the first perception of the actual fall,...more

Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:
The leaves lie thick upon the way
Of memories....more

Well, I'm listening to the pitter-patter of the rain
Alone in the middle of the night
My ol'heart begins to feel the pain
Of missing you with all my might...more

So is that time of day.
Some go for the hay.
Others try and find a way.
Yet, it is the end of day-almost....more

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Rain...Rain...
how sweet and lovely is a water from sky..
Rain..Rain..
it`s a wine of lovers......more

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....more

E knew it would rain, for all the morn
A spirit on slender ropes of mist
Was lowering its golden buckets down
Into the vapory amethyst....more

The tree tops are Dead
and so are the Roots
It's the rain they Dread
also the Shoots...more

I love the rain,
The way it gracefully falls from the leaves,
To plop soundlessly on an unforgiving ground,
Soaking up the rain until it fades away....more

I look above
Hot tears kiss my face
The sky is crying
Stars are out of sight...more