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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESTRUCTIVE RAIN, by EVA TRIEM First Line: Resentfully, I listen to the rain Last Line: The rain has smothered in its silver hood. Subject(s): Rain | |||
Resentfully, I listen to the rain Washing away the scarlet of the year As midnight tears once washed away the clear Heart-image of my love. With similar pain, With similar cherishing of grief again, The rain upon the pointed roofs I hear; Derisive laughter ... a taunt, a jeer, Strums in the great drops leaping in the lane. But I have no will to stab the back of Time -- Not even strength to pull him backward by His snarly curls; nor would I, if I could; For that wild love is gone -- gone like a chime Housed in a ruined clock, gone like a cry The rain has smothered in its silver hood. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DISTANT RAINFALL by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 32 by JAMES JOYCE HEAVY SUMMER RAIN by JANE KENYON CROWD CORRALLING by MARGARET AVISON THE RAIN-POOL by KARLE WILSON BAKER ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY by KENNETH KOCH |
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