Potential Titles: Rain
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somethingdarkerBellowing through the mist and rain - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
The swift sun hunting rain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Joystruck demon of rain - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
Where it revels and reflects on sunshine and rain - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
From desolations and eternal rains - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"
The shale night filling with rain - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"
A rain of poisonous lilacs - Etel Adnan "Night"
Season of snows and bitter rain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Dances to the rhythm of the rain - Francisco X. Alarcon "Dancing in the Streets"
Flinging luminous lances of rain - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"
The rain pours down and the four winds blow - Ellen Tracy Alden "Cluck, Cluck"
No food but these gray mosses, no drink but pearls of rain - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The sky darts through you like blue rain - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Tangled in tremulous skeins of rain - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Before the Rain"
Even the rain - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Bought even the rain - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Why shouldn't the rain signal regret - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
I linger here still with the rain and my regrets - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
Storms of shape and hue rain tremors - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Hoard June's sun and April's rain - William Allingham "The Ruined Chapel"
Weeks of rain making me forget - Hari Alluri "Spiral"
Melting into condensed rain - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"
Of grey magic like rain - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Dappled with rain and emptied smudges - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Clambering out of the rain clouds - William Archila "Childhood"
Rain of blood and wreath of flame - Sir Edwin Arnold "The First Distribution of the Victoria Cross (June 26, 1857)"
Tender rain for aching hills - Charles Ashleigh "Beyond Good and Evil" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Rain carrying the memory of lightning - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
And sharper shot the rain - William Edmondstoune Aytoun "The Heart of Bruce"
In broken sentences of falling rain - Albion Fellows Bacon "Oh, Dreary Day!"
To the bottom of the rain - James Baldwin "Inventory/On Being 52"
The concrete sky insists on rain - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Radio signals run through rain - Mary Jo Bang "One Photograph of a Rooftop"
Such night of ravage and rain - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
and suddenly flings in a rain of gold - Elizabeth Bartlett "I would remember"
Windless season without rain - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Treetops full of rain - Basho transl. by David Young
Grim display of rain and hail - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
Opening my mouth to the rain - Ellen Bass "Sometimes I'm frightened"
Only one rainy cave of hollow gloom - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited
Who rules a land of rains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. not credited
When rain falls straight from unrelenting clouds - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Pour your rain on the bitter tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
Storming, thrashing arrows of the rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"
Caught in the terrier mouth of rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Egrets at the edge of rain - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
No conflict between humans and rain - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Strangers just in from the rain - Terry Blackhawk "Sun Hat: Cape Cod Photo #1"
And the balm of rain - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
Raining away my sorrows - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
Treasured rain falling on dark ground - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Following the track of blowing leaves and cool white rain - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
rains dialects rippled on hills - Aaron Boothby "Jurupa Hills/Riverside"
Eerie fingers of the rain - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
Have wanted clean rain - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
A walk-around dance of rain and dew - Russell Brakefield "Rag"
The first rain to break a dry spell - William Brewer "Dog Days"
The dark rain veil making a bride of the mountain - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Folding in the smaller rain - Lucie Brock-Broido "After Raphael"
To merge into the sobbing rain - Lucie Brock-Broido "Dire Wolf"
With a bottle of rain - Calef Brown "Weatherbee's Diner"
No sky here allows for rain - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
Rain and silence paid another call - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"
Never stirred by rain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
When the rains have glazed the snow - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"
Clouds drop baptismal showers of rain - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Blessed sunshine, and thrice-blessed rain - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
In whom death and reaching rains have mingled - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"
The tortoise made off at the mention of rain - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
The many whispers before rain - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
Had rained diamonds for an hour - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Dwelt with the nomad tents of rain - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
When morning rose above the rain - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
Showers red rain on the shining way - Edward Carpenter "In a Canoe"
The joyous braiding of sun and rain - Cyrus Cassells "Jasmine"
The wind is weary of the rain - Walter Richard Cassels "Gone"
With rain-cloud and swallow - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Or gather marigolds in winter rain - Willa Cather "Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep"
Clouds beyond the rain - George Spencer Cautley "Summer Sunset"
Unbidden like at generous rain - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Taller than this rain - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"
The irreversibility of rain - Victoria Chang "OBIT [The Blue Dress]"
Weave your rain into a diamond mesh - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"
The rain your lunatic photographer - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
The rains have rolled back - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"
The rain is changed to silver dust - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Came ruin and the rain that burns - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Our monks go robed in rain and snow - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
A carnival ride in the rain - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"
Transforms in the lethal rain - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup"
Less rain means more salt - Killarney Clary "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"
Maybe on a Thursday, surely in rain - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Holes drilled into window sills so rainy days drain out - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"
Telling time by rain and candles - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
To wash my eyelids in the rain - Leonard Cohen "So Long, Marianne"
To illustrate the rain - Billy Collins "A History of Weather"
Find the rain of night - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: V"
A meditative measure of wind and rain - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
The blessed, long-harvested rains - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"
Outflying the blast and the driving rain - Barry Cornwall "The Stormy Petrel" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
Through the red rains rising - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Kept my place through wind and rain - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
In the loose girdle of soft rain - Hart Crane "My Grandmother's Love Letters"
In a courtyard slicked by rain and blood - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Rain, forgotten between stars - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Dripping rains of chill December - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Who tend my roots with rains of gall - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Rains of gall and suns of prejudice - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Wild hounds of the wind and rain - Olive Custance "The Storm"
As in rain of a kingly storm - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"
Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
The surprise of purple and the scent of rain - Kwame Dawes "Purple"
The muffled skirmish of the rain - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
Learn the language of rain - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"
A sky raining diamonds collected in my hat - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Succulents when the rain was scarce - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"
Pondered the redundancy of rain - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Flame"
Petition the future for more days without rain - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Fills with the strange rain of stars - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Two crows rowing through the rain - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
An incomprehensible volume of rain - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Where it rained always & without pity - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
The incessant rain of melody - Edward Dowden "From April to October: IV. The Skylark"
The rain of heavenly laughters - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
Celestial leavings of the rain - Helen Parry Eden "The Snare"
Brace before the rain - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"
To swim in the rain and remember - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The general sense of rain - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (In Windows Acting Just Like Leaves)"
Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"
Repeats the music of the rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"
And ages drop in it like rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"
To their roofs brought fiery rain - Thomas Dunn English "Jack, the Regular" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Giving rain to grain and flax - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 27. E-Ugalgala, the Temple of Ishkur in Karkara" transl. by Sophus Helle
Touch the soil & bring the rain - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
In a sputtering, sparking rain - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Calling always for rain - Eve L. Ewing "Shea Butter Manifesto"
Rains down light like argent snows - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Tangles of rain molding our homes from the inside - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
Must go carry round the rain - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
In splendor of irradiant rain - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Broken leaves, trodden by the rain - Beulah Field "The Messenger"
Stabbed with the swords of the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu Contrasted"
Fluttering butterflies in the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Moods"
Immense, bejewelled with rain of stars - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Rain rolls its tides before us - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Last through anxious rain - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
Enough to wake the rain - Julie Fogliano "Spring, May 20"
Strength enough to kill the rain - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1"
Like a cooling bell and rain - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
fetched with black rain and wild hanging gardens - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
Heavy rains choking in the roof-drains - John Freeman "The Chair"
And the smell of fire drowned in rain - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"
The straight lines of the rain - Zona Gale "Contours"
When the rain comes to erase the streets - Suzanne Gardinier "Stammering translated sonnet in which the poet sends the rains of Havana to her love in New York"
As a rain that beats all day - Theodosia Garrison "Two Brothers"
Down on us all drops the sorrowful rain - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Chill with icy sleet and rain - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
In a rain of willess atoms - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Rain making rivers by the curb - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
With stinging foam and swinging rains - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
A metal rain of radiant dye - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"
the fireworks' ashes rain down - Layla Azmi Goushey "Dream Particles"
Music rained down ineffably sweet - Herbert H. Gowen "The Little Grey Lamb"
A week spent under raining skies - Robert Graves "Limbo"
Luminous with planets to light the rain - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
With rains of unrevealed desire - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Hushed corners of endless rain - Nathalie Handal "Santo Domingo"
In the shower of an unseasonal rain - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"
The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
You're all rained out diamonds - francine j. harris "until it comes"
Pelted with roses and rinsed with the rain - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"
Thus dividing rain and roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
To brood, to hoard, to spend as rain - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Gold coins raining down on her - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"
Each night is a casket of rain - Faylita Hicks "Saint She of All the Missing Things"
If rain sat at my table - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"
Leaving that to wind and rain - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
A vacancy between drops of rain - Conrad Hilberry "Junior Powell, Sand Gap, Kentucky, with a Borrowed Guitar"
The beheaded tulips glisten with rain - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
When rain leaps to the waiting of roots - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"
That shines unleafed in winter rain - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
So lonely only rain will help - Jackson Holbert "After Rilke"
Rain his fire and brimstone round them - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
In time of silver rain - Langston Hughes "In Time of Silver Rain"
Autumn flower in the frozen rain - Langston Hughes "Troubled Woman"
Anchored with the rain - Richard Hughes "The Rolling Saint"
A dry whisper of withered rain - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
As if the tempest thirsted for the rain - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Even the rain could feel oracular - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
In the dropping rain's despite - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"
No rain left in heaven - Jean Ingelow "Songs of Seven: Seven Times One. Exultation"
Begins sobbing tears of rain - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
The rain sprites call greetings to me - "It's Raining, It's Pouring" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
And rained down flowers of speech - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A sheaf of red cloth soaked in rain - John James "Scarecrow"
The rain begins its sober comedy - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Wakened rains and clouds - Robinson Jeffers "The First Grass"
With your palms full of rain - Allison Eir Jenks "Different Ideas of Honor"
Under the rain's gaping sluices - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
Let me be buried in the rain - Helene Johnson "Invocation"
In a city made of rain - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
In each slant rain's worried whispers - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
That heeds neither wind nor rain - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: V" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Wrapped in sullen mist and rain - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Rain, relentless as obsession - Jane Kenyon "Three Crows"
Left my blessings to rust in the rain - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
By rain and sunshine reared - Joyce Kilmer "The Grass in Madison Square"
Who intimately lives with rain - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"
Weather and rain have undone it again - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
I'm a tiger in the rain - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer
Unraveled this rainy night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Turns the pages of rain - Ted Kooser "A Rainy Morning"
The earth is rejecting the rain - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
Grown great and stately with the rain - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
Grey battalions of rain - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
Wheeling shadows black with rain - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
With the rain of ruined leaves - Archibald Lampman "September"
Half the broad sky scowled in thunder and rain - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
The massed memory of upriver rain - Michael Lauchlan "Lips"
Pouring clouding rain into the sink - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
Beneath the bayonets' slant rain - D.H. Lawrence "Guards!"
The world lay ruined under rain and sliding snows - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
With leaping fire and boiling roar of rain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Harp fingered of winds and rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
That brings the sister rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
The rain she's collected is enough - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"
Glint like birds behind the rain - Joseph Lease "True Faith"
All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Ask the rain to clear my path - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
And never feared the rain - Winifred M. Letts "Hallows'e'en"
The whole weight of the rain - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"
Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
I stare at the silken lines of rain - Prince Li Chin "Thinking of Her Lover" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
When autumn rain floods the hollows - Li-Shang-yin "A Letter Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A red pavilion beyond the rain - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson
That I must travel a thousand miles of mist and rain - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
It is all the worse in rainy autumn - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The road has been paved in rain - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"
Chaos sleet and chaos rain - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"
Rain tinged with lavender - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
My rain-drenched reflection - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"
Lost in the veil of rain - Casandra Lopez "10th St Porch: Investigation"
Who thinks himself rain - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
A flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
When fox fire glimmers through drizzling rain - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson
In a blue collusion of dusk and rain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
A shattering of murky fins raining into silver scales - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Close fitting, impervious still to rain or dew - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
And walk with me in the moon's white rain - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
Where night rains weep - Amice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"
Growing quietly on through drought and rain - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
The tears of the brown rain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Fear"
And swept with bitter rain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Homesteader"
Of gnats, amyl nitrate, and goddamn rain - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"
In the rain diamonds and delerium - Joyce Mansour "The Sun in Capricorn" transl. by Carol Cosman
Starless darkness and the rush of rain - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
The rain has shelved its watering can - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Like a jaguar that once drank rain - David Tomas Martinez "The Only Mexican"
Hopes for little after months of rain - John Masefield "King Cole"
The guarded heart against excess of rain - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
To a future of mindless rain - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
With clean white tears of April rain - Theodore Maynard "Easter"
The quiet orchards folded in the rain - Theodore Maynard "The Singer to His Lady"
In the wind and bitter rain - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"
The breath of coming rain - John McCrae "Then and Now"
Winds and rains who have lost their names - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Baptized in tender rain - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
As golden rain in the singing grass - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"
The fortitude of rain hitting the roof - Erika Meitner "Non-lieux"
A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
The coming of wrathful rain - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
As the cries of the rainy cranes - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
The wedding song of sun and rains - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Straight rains and tiger sky - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
A blood kinship with rain - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"
Only the weight of rain - M.S. Merwin "Entry"
And the ages of rain - W.S. Merwin "Just This"
Turquoise alive in the rain - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
To hear that lonely passion of the rain - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
Take the riches of the rain - Alice Meynell "The Spring to the Summer"
And midnights of invisible rain - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
Silent labours of the rain - Alice Meynell "To Any Poet"
But the rain is full of ghosts tonight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: V"
Unremembered as old rain - Edna St Vincent Millay "Passer Mortuus Est"
Fog filled with dust, rain full of smoke - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Rain at the Mill"
Spring with her torch and her rain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Winter Lullaby"
A rain that hushes the silence - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
In a basket of glass rain - Claire Millikin "Doll Daughter"
Centuries of rain weighed the windows down - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"
The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
But the rains remembered those hallways - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Canted weft of rain - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
Pack the car with the weight of rain - Claire Millikin "Shopping Mall Dolls"
Derivatives of rain without protection - Claire Millikin "Some Dolls"
Only the moonlight and the rain - Anis Mojgani "Leda"
This sheet of rain evaporates - Carol Moldaw "The Lightning Field, 6"
Through planes and prisms of rain - N. Scott Momaday "The Blind Astrologers"
Vague margins of advancing rain - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Keeping the beat of burning rain - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
Weep themselves away in rain - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Heavy with the rain of all eyes - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
because I called down blood rains - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
On this day of shattering rain - Maggie Nelson "After Talking Late with Friends and a Line by T'ao Ch'ien"
Forty rainy suns over the mountains - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Always burdened by the rain - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Tomorrow will rain blood - Pablo Neruda "Cortes" transl. by John Felstiner
Joy in fire and rain - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Solitary in your rainy kingdom - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Rain on a day of love - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Burning rain over the red earth - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The bristling enmity of icebergs and rain - Pablo Neruda "The Oceanics" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The calligraphy of the rain - Pablo Neruda "Ode to an Aged Poet" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
With a shout of birds in the rain - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Sparks flying in the voice of the rain - Pablo Neruda "Slow Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Where rain established its home - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney
While the great rain of July falls - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Rain rumbled on the roofs - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The Father" transl. by Alastair Reid
Wrapped in cold rain and bells - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Like a lantern tipped in the rain - Pablo Neruda "Youth" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
Your song quivers in the rain - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
The twin seasons of rioting sun and rain - Grace Nichols "From the Balcony of Eldorado"
The flowing symphony of sun and rain - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Storm-clouds and thunder and dark rainy weather - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Rainbow"
Mirrors with lights all the colors of rain - Margaret Noodin "What They Use" transl. by the author
The right kind of rain - William Notter "High Plains Farming"
The rain in the dreaming hollows - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Grey rain in roaring streams - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Raining on the accordion chest of the sea - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
The quick white summer rain - Mary Oliver "Maples"
Whose other name is rain - Mary Oliver "Not This, Not That"
The bundles of harsh, beneficent rain - Mary Oliver "One"
The black fingerprint of the rain - Mary Oliver "What Is It"
The clear pebbles of the rain - Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"
Strong enough to withstand rain - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"
Whisper for rain - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Howl at the wind, whimper in the rain - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Sister to the rain - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"
Lovers' oaths are thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's Song"
Thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's song"
Rained wrath upon the streets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Slipped through blades of rain - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Our garments soaked in promissory rain - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Holding the rain our mouths - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
I fill my plate with rain - Kiki Petrosino "Nocturne"
A chandelier of rain - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"
Between spells of rain - Carl Phillips "Immaculate Each Leaf, And Every Flower"
Leaden rain and iron hail - John Pierpont "Warren's Address"
Rustle of rain on cold hills - Po Chu'i "Pine Sounds" transl. by Burton Watson
Let it be hail, rain, freeze or snow - "Poor Old Horse"
Rifted by years of rain - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
Redundancies of rain - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"
The cheek of the rain-starved air - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"
The insatiable hands of the rain - Lynn Powell "Tantrum, with Mistletoe"
The shimmering secret kept by rain - Rena Priest "Tour of a Salmonberry"
Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
Rain that fell like rocks - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Cedar trees in summer rain - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"
A grasshopper chirped of rain - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Quest of the White Heather: Schwartz Wald"
The diary of the rain cloud - Theodore H. Rand "Oblivion"
By sheeted rain blown tempest-wild - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"
Now falls the twisted rain - Theodore H. Rand "The Rain Cloud"
The wraith of the inky rain - Herbert Randall "The Derelict"
Pluck the rain from clouds - Herbert Randall "White Gulls"
When the sky rains jewels - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova
Companions of dawn, partners of rain - Victoria Redel "The Pact"
The collector of rains - Adrienne Rich "1941"
Many reasons not to waste a rainy evening - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"
To braid the crinkled-silver rain - Lola Ridge "Betty"
While rain falls through oleanders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Half-heard like rain on pools - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Streak of silver song ravelled with rain - Lola Ridge "'Histrionics'"
Not all the rain of centuries - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
Only the rhythm of the rain - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"
The rain will rust it red - James Whitcombe Riley "Charms I: For Corns and Things"
Like a red rose rinsed with rain - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
In a spatter of spiteful rain - James Whitcombe Riley "A Windy Day"
filling with the red rain of his grab-assing hurricane - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Flashed in a rain of gems - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"
His servants are the wind and rain - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
Our long grey hosts of rain forever marching by - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Rain dwelling in the corrugations - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
A melody old as rain and excellent of voice - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Of the long multitudinous rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
The peace of long warm rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
Unless the rain is willing - Carl Sandburg "Two Nocturns"
The harsh rain that sweeps behind the thunder - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Spilling blue words like soft rain - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
More a lilac in the rain than a crocus - James Marcus Schuyler "A Poem [Tags of songs]"
Where the rains of eons murmured their refrain - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
These bones we bartered for the rains - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"
The weights of the winds and the rains - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Birds disappeared by rain - Nicole Sealey "the first person who will live to be one hundred and fifty years old has already been born"
That rings like rain before it falls - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
When the lands are bathed in welcome rain - P. Seshadri "Raksha Bandhan"
Unexceptional as a rain gauge - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"
Silence fretted by cadent rain - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
The moon rains out her beams - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Showers a rain of melody - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Angels of rain and lightning - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
The dead, blundering planets raining past - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
A lean crow sits noisily impatient for the rain - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Last Storm"
The rains have undone the river - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
From the leash of wind and rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Little Black Hound"
The nest that long was full of rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"
Endless harping on strings of rain - Cedar Sigo "Verlaine Blues"
Blood on leather, a rain of shadows - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
Sometimes raining out of spite - H. Simpson "'There Are Quantities of Things...'"
pasqueflowers open their palms to straight rain - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
Artfully held in the celestial rain - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
Something worse than rain - Patricia Smith "Man on the TV Say"
And makes you drink rain - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"
No song of the wind and rain - George Soule "Rebellion"
'Tween two storms of leaden rain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Born of fire and nursed by rain - Frank Stanford "The Cape"
When the rain has washed the dark - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
With spirits of unnumbered rains - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Grey as any rain - George Sterling "Justice"
The lost, unhappy rain - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"
The harvests of her ancient rain - George Sterling "To Germany"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"
Quiet minutes that leave only thoughts of rain - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
A melody made up of rain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"
The tremor of spring rain - Bianca Stone "The Murder"
Gentle history of the rain - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"
A fancy of the rain - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Put up no umbrellas to the rain - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
As a root would wither without rain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The tearful-beaded rain froze into gems - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Glistening in the continuous rain of meteorites - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Through high hedges of the green rain - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Wan with wrath of wind and rain - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
Rain between the bowing heads of roses - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Keeps the rain off my bed and mat - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Moving House, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Through rains of doom that conquer brassy towers - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLVIII: Comfort II"
Like the rain of yesterday - Sara Teasdale "The Dreams of My Heart"
As rain puts out a star - Sara Teasdale "The Kiss"
In the great rain of moonlight - Sara Teasdale "Places II: Full Moon (Santa Barbara)"
The wrath of the rain - Sara Teasdale "Summer Storm"
Against the tyranny of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
The gods with mouths full of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Lifts its head to the blows of the rain - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
Where thoughts smell in the rain - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
Nothing but the wild rain - Edward Thomas "Rain"
As the rain can do without the flowers - Edward Thomas "What Will They Do?"
Young as our streams after rain - Edward Thomas "Words"
Wild with passion's rains - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
When heavy rains and sleet prolong the dreary day - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
Will sell you the rain for a fair price - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
The ill-omened drum of dropping rain - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
But mine is the rain and hail - William Troy "Roads"
Endless rains turn the trail to mud - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Now sad rains are falling - Tu Fu "The Poet Dreams" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
The rain that cries in silence - Adil Tunyaz "The World in the City of Kashgar" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Drowned in multitudinous shouts of rain - W.J. Turner "Death"
When rain is lying in shattered bright pools - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
The dusk takes refuge in the steady rain - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
Home from the night and rain - Katherine Tynan "The Old House"
Have always hated the rain - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Rain"
Clasped by roots and rains - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"
Only the desolate rain - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"
a hard rain cancelled this existential parade - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
And wonder when a rain will come that way - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
Upon them the cooling plash of rain - Henry van Dyke "If All The Skies"
As long as the ozone and the horizontal rain speak - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Through the nocturnal paint of drizzling rain - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
The wind has left furrows of rain and greasy stains - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
A shatter of rain - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Thirteen"
Your palms two puddles of rain - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"
The rain falling through him - Ocean Vuong "Threshold"
In the wake of the rain-lit sun - Derek Walcott "Stream"
No words for tonight's blossoms and rain - Wang An-Shih "Radiance-Hut" transl. by David Hinton
River rain soaks yellow twilight - Wang An-Shih "River Rain" transl. by David Hinton
How could rain be my own wandering? - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Half-Mountain Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
From her right the rain - Rosanna Warren "Fugue, Harpsichord"
That redder rain on bloody Marston Moor - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
So cheerful after rain - Lucian B. Watkins "The Flower at My Window"
Spring tides robed in rain - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
A storm cloud insisting rain - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Beneath the rain's unlicensed joys - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
Sit and watch the silent rain - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
An April rain of smiles - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
The corner of a great rain - William Carlos Williams "Contemporania"
Will have a heavier rain - William Carlos Williams "Tract"
What the rain did not uncover - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love"
That first warm rain that melts the heart of earth - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Leaving a country of rain - Cecilia Woloch "Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea"
Language of leaves and rain - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"
The ostensible clarity of rain - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Invites a purging rain - Jay Wright "Sasa"
A turquoise chain of sun-shower rain - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Beloved stones rain down - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A rain of various flowers falls - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Rain down in wondrous showers - "XXVII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Rain makes a painting on the earth - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Fistfuls of rain fall hard - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Would clouds rain down nails from the heavens? - James F. Yockey "What If"
Whoever tuned the radio to rain - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
Where no rains abated the fierce air - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"
Race instead against the almost rain - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"
Only rain and your assistant answered - Kevin Young "Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat"
Wind and rain await the opening flower - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
Wishing stars would fall as rain - Javier Zamora "Exilados"
To translate rain - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"
This rain is for us no longer - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"
Discuss the technique of rain - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Rain crocheting moss from mist - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"
The rain rubbing out their shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"
The sky's aria after weeks of rain - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
The wine of autumn rain intoxicates them - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #5" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Tiny drops of crystal rain - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"
Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"
Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Frolicking dragons in cloud-and-rain dark - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
Downpour.
To survive the fate-rained slaughter - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Rainbow.
His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"
Frozen, rain-drenched, sad betrayed - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Raindrop.
Raging rainfall of fire - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
I used to write rainfall into existence - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
In the rainfall of light - Mary Oliver "Gravel"
Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Windless you go and rainless - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
A thousand rainless years - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Weary of the rainless sands - George Sterling "An Old Indian Remembers"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Ten thousand miles of rain-soaked autumn - Wang An-Shih "Wandering at Delight-Mind Pavilion, Sent to My Sister in Ch'ien-chou" transl. by David Hinton
And from the hurt in rainsong - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"
Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"
Beneath as rainstorm of summer stars - Rebecca Dotlich "Room of Place"
Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"
To rest in the shade of the metal raintrees - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
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The swift sun hunting rain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Joystruck demon of rain - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
Where it revels and reflects on sunshine and rain - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
From desolations and eternal rains - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"
The shale night filling with rain - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"
A rain of poisonous lilacs - Etel Adnan "Night"
Season of snows and bitter rain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Dances to the rhythm of the rain - Francisco X. Alarcon "Dancing in the Streets"
Flinging luminous lances of rain - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"
The rain pours down and the four winds blow - Ellen Tracy Alden "Cluck, Cluck"
No food but these gray mosses, no drink but pearls of rain - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The sky darts through you like blue rain - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Tangled in tremulous skeins of rain - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Before the Rain"
Even the rain - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Bought even the rain - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Why shouldn't the rain signal regret - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
I linger here still with the rain and my regrets - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
Storms of shape and hue rain tremors - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Hoard June's sun and April's rain - William Allingham "The Ruined Chapel"
Weeks of rain making me forget - Hari Alluri "Spiral"
Melting into condensed rain - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"
Of grey magic like rain - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Dappled with rain and emptied smudges - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Clambering out of the rain clouds - William Archila "Childhood"
Rain of blood and wreath of flame - Sir Edwin Arnold "The First Distribution of the Victoria Cross (June 26, 1857)"
Tender rain for aching hills - Charles Ashleigh "Beyond Good and Evil" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Rain carrying the memory of lightning - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
And sharper shot the rain - William Edmondstoune Aytoun "The Heart of Bruce"
In broken sentences of falling rain - Albion Fellows Bacon "Oh, Dreary Day!"
To the bottom of the rain - James Baldwin "Inventory/On Being 52"
The concrete sky insists on rain - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Radio signals run through rain - Mary Jo Bang "One Photograph of a Rooftop"
Such night of ravage and rain - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
and suddenly flings in a rain of gold - Elizabeth Bartlett "I would remember"
Windless season without rain - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Treetops full of rain - Basho transl. by David Young
Grim display of rain and hail - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
Opening my mouth to the rain - Ellen Bass "Sometimes I'm frightened"
Only one rainy cave of hollow gloom - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited
Who rules a land of rains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. not credited
When rain falls straight from unrelenting clouds - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Pour your rain on the bitter tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
Storming, thrashing arrows of the rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"
Caught in the terrier mouth of rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Egrets at the edge of rain - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
No conflict between humans and rain - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Strangers just in from the rain - Terry Blackhawk "Sun Hat: Cape Cod Photo #1"
And the balm of rain - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
Raining away my sorrows - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
Treasured rain falling on dark ground - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Following the track of blowing leaves and cool white rain - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
rains dialects rippled on hills - Aaron Boothby "Jurupa Hills/Riverside"
Eerie fingers of the rain - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
Have wanted clean rain - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
A walk-around dance of rain and dew - Russell Brakefield "Rag"
The first rain to break a dry spell - William Brewer "Dog Days"
The dark rain veil making a bride of the mountain - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Folding in the smaller rain - Lucie Brock-Broido "After Raphael"
To merge into the sobbing rain - Lucie Brock-Broido "Dire Wolf"
With a bottle of rain - Calef Brown "Weatherbee's Diner"
No sky here allows for rain - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
Rain and silence paid another call - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"
Never stirred by rain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
When the rains have glazed the snow - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"
Clouds drop baptismal showers of rain - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Blessed sunshine, and thrice-blessed rain - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
In whom death and reaching rains have mingled - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"
The tortoise made off at the mention of rain - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
The many whispers before rain - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
Had rained diamonds for an hour - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Dwelt with the nomad tents of rain - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
When morning rose above the rain - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
Showers red rain on the shining way - Edward Carpenter "In a Canoe"
The joyous braiding of sun and rain - Cyrus Cassells "Jasmine"
The wind is weary of the rain - Walter Richard Cassels "Gone"
With rain-cloud and swallow - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Or gather marigolds in winter rain - Willa Cather "Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep"
Clouds beyond the rain - George Spencer Cautley "Summer Sunset"
Unbidden like at generous rain - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Taller than this rain - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"
The irreversibility of rain - Victoria Chang "OBIT [The Blue Dress]"
Weave your rain into a diamond mesh - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"
The rain your lunatic photographer - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
The rains have rolled back - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"
The rain is changed to silver dust - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Came ruin and the rain that burns - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Our monks go robed in rain and snow - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
A carnival ride in the rain - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"
Transforms in the lethal rain - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup"
Less rain means more salt - Killarney Clary "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"
Maybe on a Thursday, surely in rain - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Holes drilled into window sills so rainy days drain out - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"
Telling time by rain and candles - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
To wash my eyelids in the rain - Leonard Cohen "So Long, Marianne"
To illustrate the rain - Billy Collins "A History of Weather"
Find the rain of night - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: V"
A meditative measure of wind and rain - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
The blessed, long-harvested rains - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"
Outflying the blast and the driving rain - Barry Cornwall "The Stormy Petrel" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
Through the red rains rising - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Kept my place through wind and rain - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
In the loose girdle of soft rain - Hart Crane "My Grandmother's Love Letters"
In a courtyard slicked by rain and blood - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Rain, forgotten between stars - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Dripping rains of chill December - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Who tend my roots with rains of gall - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Rains of gall and suns of prejudice - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Wild hounds of the wind and rain - Olive Custance "The Storm"
As in rain of a kingly storm - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"
Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
The surprise of purple and the scent of rain - Kwame Dawes "Purple"
The muffled skirmish of the rain - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
Learn the language of rain - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"
A sky raining diamonds collected in my hat - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Succulents when the rain was scarce - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"
Pondered the redundancy of rain - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Flame"
Petition the future for more days without rain - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Fills with the strange rain of stars - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Two crows rowing through the rain - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
An incomprehensible volume of rain - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Where it rained always & without pity - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
The incessant rain of melody - Edward Dowden "From April to October: IV. The Skylark"
The rain of heavenly laughters - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
Celestial leavings of the rain - Helen Parry Eden "The Snare"
Brace before the rain - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"
To swim in the rain and remember - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The general sense of rain - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (In Windows Acting Just Like Leaves)"
Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"
Repeats the music of the rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"
And ages drop in it like rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"
To their roofs brought fiery rain - Thomas Dunn English "Jack, the Regular" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Giving rain to grain and flax - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 27. E-Ugalgala, the Temple of Ishkur in Karkara" transl. by Sophus Helle
Touch the soil & bring the rain - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
In a sputtering, sparking rain - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Calling always for rain - Eve L. Ewing "Shea Butter Manifesto"
Rains down light like argent snows - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Tangles of rain molding our homes from the inside - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
Must go carry round the rain - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
In splendor of irradiant rain - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Broken leaves, trodden by the rain - Beulah Field "The Messenger"
Stabbed with the swords of the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu Contrasted"
Fluttering butterflies in the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Moods"
Immense, bejewelled with rain of stars - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Rain rolls its tides before us - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Last through anxious rain - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
Enough to wake the rain - Julie Fogliano "Spring, May 20"
Strength enough to kill the rain - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1"
Like a cooling bell and rain - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
fetched with black rain and wild hanging gardens - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
Heavy rains choking in the roof-drains - John Freeman "The Chair"
And the smell of fire drowned in rain - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"
The straight lines of the rain - Zona Gale "Contours"
When the rain comes to erase the streets - Suzanne Gardinier "Stammering translated sonnet in which the poet sends the rains of Havana to her love in New York"
As a rain that beats all day - Theodosia Garrison "Two Brothers"
Down on us all drops the sorrowful rain - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Chill with icy sleet and rain - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
In a rain of willess atoms - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Rain making rivers by the curb - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
With stinging foam and swinging rains - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
A metal rain of radiant dye - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"
the fireworks' ashes rain down - Layla Azmi Goushey "Dream Particles"
Music rained down ineffably sweet - Herbert H. Gowen "The Little Grey Lamb"
A week spent under raining skies - Robert Graves "Limbo"
Luminous with planets to light the rain - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
With rains of unrevealed desire - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Hushed corners of endless rain - Nathalie Handal "Santo Domingo"
In the shower of an unseasonal rain - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"
The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
You're all rained out diamonds - francine j. harris "until it comes"
Pelted with roses and rinsed with the rain - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"
Thus dividing rain and roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
To brood, to hoard, to spend as rain - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Gold coins raining down on her - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"
Each night is a casket of rain - Faylita Hicks "Saint She of All the Missing Things"
If rain sat at my table - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"
Leaving that to wind and rain - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
A vacancy between drops of rain - Conrad Hilberry "Junior Powell, Sand Gap, Kentucky, with a Borrowed Guitar"
The beheaded tulips glisten with rain - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
When rain leaps to the waiting of roots - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"
That shines unleafed in winter rain - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
So lonely only rain will help - Jackson Holbert "After Rilke"
Rain his fire and brimstone round them - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
In time of silver rain - Langston Hughes "In Time of Silver Rain"
Autumn flower in the frozen rain - Langston Hughes "Troubled Woman"
Anchored with the rain - Richard Hughes "The Rolling Saint"
A dry whisper of withered rain - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
As if the tempest thirsted for the rain - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Even the rain could feel oracular - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
In the dropping rain's despite - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"
No rain left in heaven - Jean Ingelow "Songs of Seven: Seven Times One. Exultation"
Begins sobbing tears of rain - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
The rain sprites call greetings to me - "It's Raining, It's Pouring" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
And rained down flowers of speech - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A sheaf of red cloth soaked in rain - John James "Scarecrow"
The rain begins its sober comedy - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Wakened rains and clouds - Robinson Jeffers "The First Grass"
With your palms full of rain - Allison Eir Jenks "Different Ideas of Honor"
Under the rain's gaping sluices - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
Let me be buried in the rain - Helene Johnson "Invocation"
In a city made of rain - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
In each slant rain's worried whispers - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
That heeds neither wind nor rain - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: V" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Wrapped in sullen mist and rain - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Rain, relentless as obsession - Jane Kenyon "Three Crows"
Left my blessings to rust in the rain - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
By rain and sunshine reared - Joyce Kilmer "The Grass in Madison Square"
Who intimately lives with rain - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"
Weather and rain have undone it again - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
I'm a tiger in the rain - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer
Unraveled this rainy night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Turns the pages of rain - Ted Kooser "A Rainy Morning"
The earth is rejecting the rain - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
Grown great and stately with the rain - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
Grey battalions of rain - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
Wheeling shadows black with rain - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
With the rain of ruined leaves - Archibald Lampman "September"
Half the broad sky scowled in thunder and rain - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
The massed memory of upriver rain - Michael Lauchlan "Lips"
Pouring clouding rain into the sink - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
Beneath the bayonets' slant rain - D.H. Lawrence "Guards!"
The world lay ruined under rain and sliding snows - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
With leaping fire and boiling roar of rain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Harp fingered of winds and rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
That brings the sister rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
The rain she's collected is enough - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"
Glint like birds behind the rain - Joseph Lease "True Faith"
All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Ask the rain to clear my path - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
And never feared the rain - Winifred M. Letts "Hallows'e'en"
The whole weight of the rain - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"
Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
I stare at the silken lines of rain - Prince Li Chin "Thinking of Her Lover" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
When autumn rain floods the hollows - Li-Shang-yin "A Letter Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A red pavilion beyond the rain - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson
That I must travel a thousand miles of mist and rain - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
It is all the worse in rainy autumn - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The road has been paved in rain - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"
Chaos sleet and chaos rain - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"
Rain tinged with lavender - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
My rain-drenched reflection - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"
Lost in the veil of rain - Casandra Lopez "10th St Porch: Investigation"
Who thinks himself rain - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
A flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
When fox fire glimmers through drizzling rain - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson
In a blue collusion of dusk and rain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
A shattering of murky fins raining into silver scales - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Close fitting, impervious still to rain or dew - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
And walk with me in the moon's white rain - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
Where night rains weep - Amice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"
Growing quietly on through drought and rain - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
The tears of the brown rain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Fear"
And swept with bitter rain - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Homesteader"
Of gnats, amyl nitrate, and goddamn rain - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"
In the rain diamonds and delerium - Joyce Mansour "The Sun in Capricorn" transl. by Carol Cosman
Starless darkness and the rush of rain - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
The rain has shelved its watering can - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Like a jaguar that once drank rain - David Tomas Martinez "The Only Mexican"
Hopes for little after months of rain - John Masefield "King Cole"
The guarded heart against excess of rain - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
To a future of mindless rain - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
With clean white tears of April rain - Theodore Maynard "Easter"
The quiet orchards folded in the rain - Theodore Maynard "The Singer to His Lady"
In the wind and bitter rain - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"
The breath of coming rain - John McCrae "Then and Now"
Winds and rains who have lost their names - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Baptized in tender rain - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
As golden rain in the singing grass - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"
The fortitude of rain hitting the roof - Erika Meitner "Non-lieux"
A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
The coming of wrathful rain - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
As the cries of the rainy cranes - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
The wedding song of sun and rains - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Straight rains and tiger sky - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
A blood kinship with rain - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"
Only the weight of rain - M.S. Merwin "Entry"
And the ages of rain - W.S. Merwin "Just This"
Turquoise alive in the rain - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
To hear that lonely passion of the rain - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
Take the riches of the rain - Alice Meynell "The Spring to the Summer"
And midnights of invisible rain - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
Silent labours of the rain - Alice Meynell "To Any Poet"
But the rain is full of ghosts tonight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: V"
Unremembered as old rain - Edna St Vincent Millay "Passer Mortuus Est"
Fog filled with dust, rain full of smoke - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Rain at the Mill"
Spring with her torch and her rain - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Winter Lullaby"
A rain that hushes the silence - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
In a basket of glass rain - Claire Millikin "Doll Daughter"
Centuries of rain weighed the windows down - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"
The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
But the rains remembered those hallways - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Canted weft of rain - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
Pack the car with the weight of rain - Claire Millikin "Shopping Mall Dolls"
Derivatives of rain without protection - Claire Millikin "Some Dolls"
Only the moonlight and the rain - Anis Mojgani "Leda"
This sheet of rain evaporates - Carol Moldaw "The Lightning Field, 6"
Through planes and prisms of rain - N. Scott Momaday "The Blind Astrologers"
Vague margins of advancing rain - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Keeping the beat of burning rain - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
Weep themselves away in rain - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Heavy with the rain of all eyes - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
because I called down blood rains - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
On this day of shattering rain - Maggie Nelson "After Talking Late with Friends and a Line by T'ao Ch'ien"
Forty rainy suns over the mountains - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Always burdened by the rain - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Tomorrow will rain blood - Pablo Neruda "Cortes" transl. by John Felstiner
Joy in fire and rain - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Solitary in your rainy kingdom - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Rain on a day of love - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Burning rain over the red earth - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The bristling enmity of icebergs and rain - Pablo Neruda "The Oceanics" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The calligraphy of the rain - Pablo Neruda "Ode to an Aged Poet" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
With a shout of birds in the rain - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Sparks flying in the voice of the rain - Pablo Neruda "Slow Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Where rain established its home - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney
While the great rain of July falls - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Rain rumbled on the roofs - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The Father" transl. by Alastair Reid
Wrapped in cold rain and bells - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Like a lantern tipped in the rain - Pablo Neruda "Youth" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
Your song quivers in the rain - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
The twin seasons of rioting sun and rain - Grace Nichols "From the Balcony of Eldorado"
The flowing symphony of sun and rain - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Storm-clouds and thunder and dark rainy weather - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Rainbow"
Mirrors with lights all the colors of rain - Margaret Noodin "What They Use" transl. by the author
The right kind of rain - William Notter "High Plains Farming"
The rain in the dreaming hollows - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Grey rain in roaring streams - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Raining on the accordion chest of the sea - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
The quick white summer rain - Mary Oliver "Maples"
Whose other name is rain - Mary Oliver "Not This, Not That"
The bundles of harsh, beneficent rain - Mary Oliver "One"
The black fingerprint of the rain - Mary Oliver "What Is It"
The clear pebbles of the rain - Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"
Strong enough to withstand rain - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"
Whisper for rain - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Howl at the wind, whimper in the rain - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Sister to the rain - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"
Lovers' oaths are thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's Song"
Thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's song"
Rained wrath upon the streets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Slipped through blades of rain - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Our garments soaked in promissory rain - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Holding the rain our mouths - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
I fill my plate with rain - Kiki Petrosino "Nocturne"
A chandelier of rain - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"
Between spells of rain - Carl Phillips "Immaculate Each Leaf, And Every Flower"
Leaden rain and iron hail - John Pierpont "Warren's Address"
Rustle of rain on cold hills - Po Chu'i "Pine Sounds" transl. by Burton Watson
Let it be hail, rain, freeze or snow - "Poor Old Horse"
Rifted by years of rain - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
Redundancies of rain - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"
The cheek of the rain-starved air - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"
The insatiable hands of the rain - Lynn Powell "Tantrum, with Mistletoe"
The shimmering secret kept by rain - Rena Priest "Tour of a Salmonberry"
Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
Rain that fell like rocks - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Cedar trees in summer rain - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"
A grasshopper chirped of rain - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Quest of the White Heather: Schwartz Wald"
The diary of the rain cloud - Theodore H. Rand "Oblivion"
By sheeted rain blown tempest-wild - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"
Now falls the twisted rain - Theodore H. Rand "The Rain Cloud"
The wraith of the inky rain - Herbert Randall "The Derelict"
Pluck the rain from clouds - Herbert Randall "White Gulls"
When the sky rains jewels - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova
Companions of dawn, partners of rain - Victoria Redel "The Pact"
The collector of rains - Adrienne Rich "1941"
Many reasons not to waste a rainy evening - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"
To braid the crinkled-silver rain - Lola Ridge "Betty"
While rain falls through oleanders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Half-heard like rain on pools - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Streak of silver song ravelled with rain - Lola Ridge "'Histrionics'"
Not all the rain of centuries - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
Only the rhythm of the rain - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"
The rain will rust it red - James Whitcombe Riley "Charms I: For Corns and Things"
Like a red rose rinsed with rain - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
In a spatter of spiteful rain - James Whitcombe Riley "A Windy Day"
filling with the red rain of his grab-assing hurricane - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Flashed in a rain of gems - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"
His servants are the wind and rain - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
Our long grey hosts of rain forever marching by - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Rain dwelling in the corrugations - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
A melody old as rain and excellent of voice - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Of the long multitudinous rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
The peace of long warm rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
Unless the rain is willing - Carl Sandburg "Two Nocturns"
The harsh rain that sweeps behind the thunder - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Spilling blue words like soft rain - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
More a lilac in the rain than a crocus - James Marcus Schuyler "A Poem [Tags of songs]"
Where the rains of eons murmured their refrain - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
These bones we bartered for the rains - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"
The weights of the winds and the rains - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Birds disappeared by rain - Nicole Sealey "the first person who will live to be one hundred and fifty years old has already been born"
That rings like rain before it falls - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
When the lands are bathed in welcome rain - P. Seshadri "Raksha Bandhan"
Unexceptional as a rain gauge - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"
Silence fretted by cadent rain - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
The moon rains out her beams - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Showers a rain of melody - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Angels of rain and lightning - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
The dead, blundering planets raining past - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
A lean crow sits noisily impatient for the rain - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Last Storm"
The rains have undone the river - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
From the leash of wind and rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Little Black Hound"
The nest that long was full of rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"
Endless harping on strings of rain - Cedar Sigo "Verlaine Blues"
Blood on leather, a rain of shadows - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
Sometimes raining out of spite - H. Simpson "'There Are Quantities of Things...'"
pasqueflowers open their palms to straight rain - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
Artfully held in the celestial rain - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
Something worse than rain - Patricia Smith "Man on the TV Say"
And makes you drink rain - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"
No song of the wind and rain - George Soule "Rebellion"
'Tween two storms of leaden rain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Born of fire and nursed by rain - Frank Stanford "The Cape"
When the rain has washed the dark - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
With spirits of unnumbered rains - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Grey as any rain - George Sterling "Justice"
The lost, unhappy rain - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"
The harvests of her ancient rain - George Sterling "To Germany"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"
Quiet minutes that leave only thoughts of rain - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
A melody made up of rain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"
The tremor of spring rain - Bianca Stone "The Murder"
Gentle history of the rain - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"
A fancy of the rain - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Put up no umbrellas to the rain - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
As a root would wither without rain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The tearful-beaded rain froze into gems - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Glistening in the continuous rain of meteorites - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Through high hedges of the green rain - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Wan with wrath of wind and rain - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
Rain between the bowing heads of roses - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Keeps the rain off my bed and mat - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Moving House, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Through rains of doom that conquer brassy towers - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLVIII: Comfort II"
Like the rain of yesterday - Sara Teasdale "The Dreams of My Heart"
As rain puts out a star - Sara Teasdale "The Kiss"
In the great rain of moonlight - Sara Teasdale "Places II: Full Moon (Santa Barbara)"
The wrath of the rain - Sara Teasdale "Summer Storm"
Against the tyranny of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
The gods with mouths full of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Lifts its head to the blows of the rain - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
Where thoughts smell in the rain - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
Nothing but the wild rain - Edward Thomas "Rain"
As the rain can do without the flowers - Edward Thomas "What Will They Do?"
Young as our streams after rain - Edward Thomas "Words"
Wild with passion's rains - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
When heavy rains and sleet prolong the dreary day - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
Will sell you the rain for a fair price - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
The ill-omened drum of dropping rain - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
But mine is the rain and hail - William Troy "Roads"
Endless rains turn the trail to mud - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Now sad rains are falling - Tu Fu "The Poet Dreams" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
The rain that cries in silence - Adil Tunyaz "The World in the City of Kashgar" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Drowned in multitudinous shouts of rain - W.J. Turner "Death"
When rain is lying in shattered bright pools - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
The dusk takes refuge in the steady rain - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
Home from the night and rain - Katherine Tynan "The Old House"
Have always hated the rain - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Rain"
Clasped by roots and rains - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"
Only the desolate rain - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"
a hard rain cancelled this existential parade - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
And wonder when a rain will come that way - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
Upon them the cooling plash of rain - Henry van Dyke "If All The Skies"
As long as the ozone and the horizontal rain speak - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Through the nocturnal paint of drizzling rain - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
The wind has left furrows of rain and greasy stains - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
A shatter of rain - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Thirteen"
Your palms two puddles of rain - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"
The rain falling through him - Ocean Vuong "Threshold"
In the wake of the rain-lit sun - Derek Walcott "Stream"
No words for tonight's blossoms and rain - Wang An-Shih "Radiance-Hut" transl. by David Hinton
River rain soaks yellow twilight - Wang An-Shih "River Rain" transl. by David Hinton
How could rain be my own wandering? - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Half-Mountain Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
From her right the rain - Rosanna Warren "Fugue, Harpsichord"
That redder rain on bloody Marston Moor - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
So cheerful after rain - Lucian B. Watkins "The Flower at My Window"
Spring tides robed in rain - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
A storm cloud insisting rain - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Beneath the rain's unlicensed joys - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
Sit and watch the silent rain - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
An April rain of smiles - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
The corner of a great rain - William Carlos Williams "Contemporania"
Will have a heavier rain - William Carlos Williams "Tract"
What the rain did not uncover - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love"
That first warm rain that melts the heart of earth - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Leaving a country of rain - Cecilia Woloch "Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea"
Language of leaves and rain - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"
The ostensible clarity of rain - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Invites a purging rain - Jay Wright "Sasa"
A turquoise chain of sun-shower rain - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Beloved stones rain down - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A rain of various flowers falls - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Rain down in wondrous showers - "XXVII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Rain makes a painting on the earth - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Fistfuls of rain fall hard - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Would clouds rain down nails from the heavens? - James F. Yockey "What If"
Whoever tuned the radio to rain - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
Where no rains abated the fierce air - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"
Race instead against the almost rain - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"
Only rain and your assistant answered - Kevin Young "Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat"
Wind and rain await the opening flower - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
Wishing stars would fall as rain - Javier Zamora "Exilados"
To translate rain - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"
This rain is for us no longer - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"
Discuss the technique of rain - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Rain crocheting moss from mist - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"
The rain rubbing out their shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"
The sky's aria after weeks of rain - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
The wine of autumn rain intoxicates them - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #5" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Tiny drops of crystal rain - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"
Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"
Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Frolicking dragons in cloud-and-rain dark - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
Downpour.
To survive the fate-rained slaughter - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Rainbow.
His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"
Frozen, rain-drenched, sad betrayed - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Raindrop.
Raging rainfall of fire - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
I used to write rainfall into existence - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
In the rainfall of light - Mary Oliver "Gravel"
Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Windless you go and rainless - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
A thousand rainless years - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Weary of the rainless sands - George Sterling "An Old Indian Remembers"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Ten thousand miles of rain-soaked autumn - Wang An-Shih "Wandering at Delight-Mind Pavilion, Sent to My Sister in Ch'ien-chou" transl. by David Hinton
And from the hurt in rainsong - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"
Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"
Beneath as rainstorm of summer stars - Rebecca Dotlich "Room of Place"
Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"
To rest in the shade of the metal raintrees - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
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