Poems (Kennedy)/The Rain
RAIN
KEEP your calm days with azure skies
And shadows playing hide-and-seek
From dawn to dusk, and gold-of-Ophir sun
Crowning the far-off mountain peak
Keep these for yours—
Give me the rain!
And shadows playing hide-and-seek
From dawn to dusk, and gold-of-Ophir sun
Crowning the far-off mountain peak
Keep these for yours—
Give me the rain!
Give me the days gray like the cowl
That hides a monk's pale, musing face.
No glint of blue or east or west,
No break within the somber space,
But blur instead
Of blown, white rain.
That hides a monk's pale, musing face.
No glint of blue or east or west,
No break within the somber space,
But blur instead
Of blown, white rain.
For in the sun I am apart
Of life with all its heave and beat,
Its two-fold purpose—love and hate—
Its destiny so swift and sweet;
But in the rain
I am alone.
Of life with all its heave and beat,
Its two-fold purpose—love and hate—
Its destiny so swift and sweet;
But in the rain
I am alone.
Alone, to hear the far, clear call
Wind-whispered from the voiceless past,
Alone with my own hidden self
To build new dreams and hold them fast—
To sing my heart
Out with the rain.
Wind-whispered from the voiceless past,
Alone with my own hidden self
To build new dreams and hold them fast—
To sing my heart
Out with the rain.