I Throughout the afternoon I watched them there,Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky, 2Whirling fantastic in the misty air,Contending fierce for space supremacy. 4And they flew down a mightier force at night,As though in heaven there was revolt and riot, 6And they, frail things had taken panic flightDown to the calm earth seeking peace andContinue reading “The Snow Fairy : Claude Mckay : Sonnet : : Winter Poems : :”
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The Kingfisher : W H Davies : : Rainbow Poems : :
The Kingfisher : By William Henry Davies : ( July 3 , 1871 – September 26 , 1940 ). : : : : : : It was the Rainbow gave thee birth,And left thee all her lovely hues; 2 And, as her mother’s name was Tears,So runs it in my blood to choose 4For hauntsContinue reading “The Kingfisher : W H Davies : : Rainbow Poems : :”
The Rainbow Never Tells Me : : Emily Dickinson : : Rain / Rainbow Poems : :
The rainbow never tells meThat gust and storm are by,Yet is she more convincingThan Philosophy. My flowers turn from Forums—Yet eloquent declareWhat Cato couldn’t prove meExcept the birds were here! – F 76 (1859) : : Emily Dickinson “The Rainbow Never Tells Me” By Emily Dickinson speaks on the themes of nature, wisdom, and truth.Continue reading “The Rainbow Never Tells Me : : Emily Dickinson : : Rain / Rainbow Poems : :”
The Rainbow : James Thompson : : Rain/ Rainbow Poems : :
The Rainbow Poem by James Thomson : : : : Moist, bright, and green, the landscape laughs around.Full swell the woods; their every music wakes,Mix’d in wild concert, with the warbling brooksIncreased, the distant bleatings of the hills,And hollow lows responsive from the vales,Whence, blending all, the sweeten’d zephyr springs. ( 6 ) : StanzaContinue reading “The Rainbow : James Thompson : : Rain/ Rainbow Poems : :”
Song For The Rainy Season : Elizabeth Bishop : : Rain Poems : :
Song For The Rainy Season by Elizabeth Bishop ( 1911 – 1979 )Hidden, oh hiddenin the high fogthe house we live in,beneath the magnetic rock,rain-, rainbow-ridden,where blood-blackbromelias, lichens,owls, and the lintof the waterfalls cling,familiar, unbidden. In a dim ageof waterthe brook sings loudfrom a rib cageof giant fern; vaporclimbs up the thick growtheffortlessly, turns back,holdingContinue reading “Song For The Rainy Season : Elizabeth Bishop : : Rain Poems : :”
A Drop Fell On The Apple Tree : : Emily Dickinson : : Rain Poems : :
Summer Shower : Emily Dickinson ( 1830 – 1886 ) : : “A Drop Fell On The Apple Tree” is a wonderfully evocative Poem speaking of the joy on arriving of the rain to the dry Summer land and an inter – relationship with the rest of the world. Little rain “A Drop On TheContinue reading “A Drop Fell On The Apple Tree : : Emily Dickinson : : Rain Poems : :”
The Rainy Day : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : : Rain Poems : :
The Rainy Day : This 1842 poem has the famous line “Into each life some rain must fall,” meaning that everyone will experience difficulty and heartache at some point. The “day” is a metaphor for “life.” Written after the death of his first wife and before he married his second wife, “The Rainy Day” hasContinue reading “The Rainy Day : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : : Rain Poems : :”
My father moved through dooms of love : : by E.E. Cummings : : Fathers Poems : :
my father moved through dooms of loveE. E. Cummings – 1894-1962 my father moved through dooms of lovethrough sames of am through haves of give,singing each morning out of each nightmy father moved through depths of height this motionless forgetful whereturned at his glance to shining here;that if (so timid air is firm)under his eyesContinue reading “My father moved through dooms of love : : by E.E. Cummings : : Fathers Poems : :”
My Heart Leaps Up : William Wordsworth : : Sky Poems / Sky Songs : ( 18 ) : :
My Heart Leaps UpWilliam Wordsworth – 1770-1850 My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;And I could wish myContinue reading “My Heart Leaps Up : William Wordsworth : : Sky Poems / Sky Songs : ( 18 ) : :”
The Starlight Night : : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Sonnets : : Sky Poems/ Songs : ( 15 ) : :
The Starlight NightBY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINSLook at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves’-eyes!The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!Continue reading “The Starlight Night : : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Sonnets : : Sky Poems/ Songs : ( 15 ) : :”
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