quotations about rain
In the truest sense of the word, rain deserves to be called a present from heaven. The blessings which our Heavenly Father pours upon us by this means are equally abundant and necessary for us. As the consequences of a continued draught would be fatal to us, so the advantages are equally precious which the refreshing showers afford.
C. C. STURM
Reflections for Every Day in the Year, on the Works of God, and His Providence Throughout All Nature
A little rain will fill
The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.
EDWIN ARNOLD
The Light of Asia
At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain
PABLO NERUDA
Regalo de un Poeta
Here and there, an old tub was put to catch the droppings of rain-water from a roof, or they were banked up with mud into a little pond like a large dirt-pie.
CHARLES DICKENS
Bleak House
Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies,
That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife
That with moist tears embraces her prone lord.
Thou mist intensified; thou double dew
That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt --
Thou resurrection rain.
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE
"The Earth's Athirst", Cloudrifts at Twilight
The night is like a seaside night in England toward the end of September. They say it is the prelude to clear weather. But the wind is roaring now, and the sea is raving, and the rain is driving down, as if they had all set in for a real hearty picnic, and each had brought its own relations to the general festivity.
CHARLES DICKENS
Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833-1870