Religion

Souls and Rain-Drops

by Sidney Lanier 1842–1881

Religion

Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,
Then vanish, and die utterly.
One would not know that rain-drops fell
If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.
So souls come down and wrinkle life
And vanish in the flesh-sea strife.
One might not know that souls had place
Were't not for the wrinkles in life's face.

MLA

Lanier, Sidney. “Souls and Rain-Drops.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lanier/57/.

Chicago

Lanier, Sidney. “Souls and Rain-Drops.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lanier/57/.

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