Nature

April Rain

by Robert Loveman 1864–1923

From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)

Nature

It is not raining rain for me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on the hills.

The clouds of gray engulf the day
And overwhelm the town;
It is not raining rain to me,
It's raining roses down.

It is not raining rain to me,
But fields of clover bloom,
Where any buccaneering bee
Can find a bed and room.

A health unto the happy,
A fig for him who frets!
It is not raining rain to me,
It's raining violets.

MLA

Loveman, Robert. “April Rain.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/loveman/2/.

Chicago

Loveman, Robert. “April Rain.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/loveman/2/.

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