The mist and the rain, the mist and the rain! Is it ay or no? is it ay or no? And never a glimpse of her window-pane! And I may die but the grass will grow, And the grass will grow when I am gone, And the wet west wind and the world will go on. Ay is the song of the wedded spheres, No is trouble and cloud and storm, Ay is life for a hundred years, No will push me down to the worm, And when I am there and dead and gone, The wet west wind and the world will go on. The wind and the wet, the wind and the wet! Wet west wind, how you blow, you blow! And never a line from my lady yet! Is it ay or no? is it ay or no? Blow then, blow, and when I am gone, The wet west wind and the world may go on. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE COMING AMERICAN by SAM WALTER FOSS ECHOES: 6 by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY HARRY PLOUGHMAN by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS MODERN LOVE: 34 by GEORGE MEREDITH AT A VACATION EXERCISE IN THE COLLEGE by JOHN MILTON |