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AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE RAIN HAS CEASED, AND IN MY ROOM
Last Line: WITH PURPLE RIPPLES ON HER NECK.
Subject(s): NATURE; RAIN;
THE rain has ceased, and in my room
The sunshine pours an airy flood;
And on the church's dizzy vane
The ancient Cross is bathed in blood.
From out the dripping ivy-leaves,
Antiquely carven, gray and high,
A dormer, facing westward, looks
Upon the village like an eye.
And now it glimmers in the sun,
A square of gold, a disc, a speck:
And in the belfry sits a Dove
With purple ripples on her neck.


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