WE 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 Of marshes nd swamps and dismal fens -- Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To scatter them over the land in showers. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind -- and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OF ANY OLD MAN by ISAAC ROSENBERG SONGS IN ABSENCE: 7. THE SHIP by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH SONNET: 27 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862] by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON PSALM 2 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE INACCESSIBILITY IN THE BATTLEFIELD by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |