Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.
William Wetmore Story 18191895
William Wetmore Story123 In the Rain
I
In the white and silvery rain;
The great trees huddle together,
And sway with the windy strain.
I dream of the purple glory
Of the roseate mountain-height
And the sweet-to-remember story
Of a distant and clear delight.
And the sky is cold and gray, And the wind in the trees keeps complaining That summer has passed away;— But the gray and the cold are haunted By a beauty akin to pain,— By a sense of a something wanted, That never will come again.