RAIN QUOTES II
quotations about rain
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passes with delicate change.
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS
"Idleness", Fugitive Poetry
Remember that every drop that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility. Remember that each glorious tree, and herb, and shrub, and flower, owes to those drops its life, its freshness, and its beauty.
GEORGE PAYNE R. JAMES
Henry Masterton; or, The Adventures of a Young Cavalier
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
Coming down on a sunny day?
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
"Have You Ever Sean the Rain?"
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
THE BEATLES
"Rain"
I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
MARK HADDON
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The long stroke of the raindrop, which is the drop and its path at once, being our impression of a shower, shows us how certainly our impression is the effect of the lagging, and not of the haste, of our senses. What we are apt to call our quick impression is rather our sensibly tardy, unprepared, surprised, outrun, lightly bewildered sense of things that flash and fall, wink, and are overpast and renewed, while the gentle eyes of man hesitate and mingle the beginning with the close. These inexpert eyes, delicately baffled, detain for an instant the image that puzzles them, and so dally with the bright progress of a meteor, and part slowly from the slender course of the already fallen raindrop, whose moments are not theirs. There seems to be such a difference of instants as invests all swift movement with mystery in man's eyes, and causes the past, a moment old, to be written, vanishing, upon the skies.
ALICE MEYNELL
"Rain", The Spirit of Place and Other Essays
Shortly afterwards it started raining, very innocently at first, but the sky was packed tight with cloud and gradually the drops grew bigger and heavier, until it was autumn's dismal rain that was falling--rain that seemed to fill the entire world with its leaden beat, rain suggestive in its dreariness of everlasting waterfalls between the planets, rain that thatched the heavens with drabness and brooded oppressively over the whole countryside, like a disease.
HALLDOR LAXNESS
Independent People
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.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Before the Rain
How it pours, pours, pours,
In a never-ending sheet!
How it drives beneath the doors!
How it soaks the passer's feet!
How it rattles on the shutter!
How it rumples up the lawn!
How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
From darkness until dawn.
ROSSITER JOHNSON
Rhyme of the Rain
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise
The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields;
And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool
Prelusive drops; let all their moisture flow,
In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.
JAMES THOMSON
"Spring", The Seasons
Rain rain go away,
Come again another day
ANONYMOUS
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
There was an iron-gray sky above a black tumbling sea; and the rain, driven by a mad wind, smote the face like a blow from a passionate hand.
AMELIA E. BARR
A Daughter of Fife
The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement.
CHARLES DICKENS
Bleak House
Not excepting the falling stars--for they are far less sudden--there is nothing in nature that so outstrips our unready eyes as the familiar rain. The rods that thinly stripe our landscape, long shafts from the clouds, if we had but agility to make the arrowy downward journey with them by the glancing of our eyes, would be infinitely separate, units, an innumerable flight of single things, and the simple movement of intricate points.
ALICE MEYNELL
"Rain", The Spirit of Place and Other Essays
Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.
KEN BAKER
Through Fire and Water: The Birth of Elim
In the early mornin' rain
With a dollar in my hand
With an aching in my heart
And my pockets full of sand
I'm a long ways from home
And I missed my loved one so
In the early mornin' rain
With no place to go
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
"Early Morning Rain"
Rain is a boon to a thirsty soldier.
ANTONINUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
And it feels like rain
So batten down the hatches, baby
Leave your heart out on your sleeve
It looks like were in for stormy weather
That ain't no cause for us to leave
Just lie here in my arms
And let it wash away the pain
JOHN HIATT
"Feels Like Rain"
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
JONATHAN SWIFT
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