Nature

Fragment: Rain (The gentleness of rain…)

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822

From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)

Nature

The gentleness of rain was in the wind.

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Published 1870.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Rain (The gentleness of rain…).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/204/.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Rain (The gentleness of rain…).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/204/.

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