RAIN, and a glare of lamps set in the rain, Where seekers for numb brains and deadened wills Stagger like helpless idiots through the pain Of vain remembrance of increasing ills. The dazzle of light in the darkness thickly fills The breadth of street with long and snake-like stain Of false gold, which the weak sight blinds and kills, While through it all come slipping by amain, Like vast black birds of prey with eyes aglow, The automobiles, 'mid shrieks and howls of lust; No deeper tragedy the earth can know Than this, its night of pain and rain and rust, Where death is only death and nothingness, But living holds hell's infinite distress. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NEED OF BEING VERSED IN COUNTRY THINGS by ROBERT FROST TO HELEN (1) by EDGAR ALLAN POE WEST END FAIR by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SCHOOLTEACHER by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI PSALM 130 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE FORMALITY AND THE SOUL: 1. JOHN SINGER SARGENT by KARL W. BIGELOW THE CONTRAST; THE SUNNY SIDE by LEVI BISHOP |