Rain Quotes and Rain Poems

A rainy day can be dreary or it can be a welcomed change in the weather. Poets can offer both perspectives. Here is a curated collection of rain poetry and quotes from our editors.

Rain Quotes

"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams." - Horsea Ballou
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read." - Benjamin Franklin
"With hey, ho, the wind and the rain- Must make content with his fortunes fit, For the rain it raineth every day. ." - King Lear - William Shakespeare
"On me, like the rain in Autumn On the dead leaves, cold and fast."- "The Village Street" - Edgar Allan Poe
"and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins." - Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
"It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't." - A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life." - John Updike
"Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation." - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath

Rain Poems

"The Rainy Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfello
This rain poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow contains the lines: "The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary;"
"Spring Storm" by William Carlos Williams
This rainstorm poem contains the lines: "But water, water from a thousand runnels! It collects swiftly, dappled with black"
"Rain" by Robert Louis Stevenson
This is a very short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson: "The Rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here. And on the ships at sea."
"Rain in Summer" by Henry Wadsworth Longfello
This Longfellow rain poem contains the lines: "How beautiful is the rain! How it clatters along the roofs, Like the tramp of hoofs How it gushes and struggles out."
"Like Rain it sounded till it curved" by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson's rain poem begins:
"Like Rain it sounded till it curved
And then I new 'twas Wind --
It walked as wet as any Wave
But swept as dry as sand --"
"Rain Poem" by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson's rain poem begins:
"A drop fell on the apple tree
Another on the roof;
A half a dozen kissed the eaves,
And made the gables laugh."
"The Rain" by William Henry Davies
Davies' upbeat rain poem includes the lines: "Drop after drop; 'Tis a sweet noise to hear These green leaves drinking near."
"A Drop Fell On The Apple Tree" by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson's poem begins with the lines:
"A Drop fell on the Apple Tree -
Another - on the Roof -
A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves -
And made the Gables laugh -"

You can find more poems in our Poems section