RAIN QUOTES III
quotations about rain
Innocent droplets of rain
Make almost all events
Quite natural.
VISAR ZHITI
"A Rainy Day", The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
Called down the lightnin'
By a mystical name
Then the rainmaker called on the thunder
And suddenly it began to rain
Then the rainmaker passed his hat to the people
But the people all turned away
Then the rainmaker's eyes
And the Kansas skies
Both became a darker grey
HARRY NILSSON
"Rainmaker", Harry
I don't just wish you rain, Beloved -- I wish you the beauty of storms.
JOHN GEDDES
A Familiar Rain
No clouds in my stones
Let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank
Coming down with the Dow Jones
When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella
We fly higher than weather
RIHANNA
"Umbrella"
The all-night rain puts out summer like a torch. In the heavy, black rain falling straight from invisible, dark sky to invisible, dark earth the heat of summer is annihilated, the splendour is dead, the summer is gone. The midnight rain buries it away where it has buried all sound but its own. I am alone in the dark still night, and my ear listens to the rain piping in the gutters and roaring softly in the trees of the world.
EDWARD THOMAS
Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
If there is one righteous person the rain falls for his sake.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm still alive underneath this shroud
Rain Rain Rain
PATTI GRIFFIN
"Rain"
Baby of the cloud, rain is carried long enough within that troubled breast to make all the multitude of days unlike each other. Rain, as the end of the cloud, divides light and withholds it; in its flight warning away the sun, and in its final fall dismissing shadow. It is a threat and a reconciliation; it removes mountains compared with which the Alps are hillocks, and makes a childlike peace between opposed heights and battlements of heaven.
ALICE MEYNELL
"Rain", The Spirit of Place and Other Essays
And the hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
From sunny woof and cloudy weft
Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself
I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left
The learned volume on the shelf.
ALFRED AUSTIN
"Nature and the Book", At the Gate of the Convent and Other Poems
If you think it's going to rain, it will.
CLINT EASTWOOD
attributed, Words of Wisdom
I love to go in the capricious days
Of April and hunt violets; when the rain
Is in the blue cups trembling, and they nod
So gracefully to the kisses of the wind.
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS
"Idleness", Fugitive Poetry
I don't mind, no I don't mind, I don't mind the rain
The simple things and subtleties they always stay the same
I don't mind, that I don't mind, no, I don't mind the rain
Like a widow's heart
We fall apart
But never fade away (fade away)
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
"Rain"
He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.
JAMES DASHNER
The Scorch Trials
Rain is as romantic as roses, and as easily overdone.
CYNTHIA BARNETT
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Now frowns the sky, the air bites bleak,
The young boughs rock, the old trunks creak,
And fast before the following gale
Come slanting drops, then slashing hail,
As keen as sword, as thick as shot.
Nay, do not cower, but heed them not!
For these one neither flies nor stirs;
They are but April skirmishers,
Thrown out to cover the advance
Of gleaming spear and glittering lance,
With which the sunshine scours amain
Heaven, earth, and air, and routs the rain.
ALFRED AUSTIN
"A Defence of English Spring", Lyrical Poems
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Cloud
Neither was a law able to be imposed on the falling rain, that they should not water and overflow the fields of the wicked and unjust.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
For the rain it raineth every day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Twelfth Night
Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes
Will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me 'cause,
I'm never gonna stop the rain
By complaining,
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me
HAL DAVID & BURT BACHARACH
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"