{"id":9207,"date":"2023-03-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2023-03-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:00:00","slug":"rain-on-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/rain-on-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain on the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, March 2, 1915<\/a>. By Coates Kinney.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

When the humid shadows hover    Over all the starry spheres,And the melancholy darkness    Gently weeps in rainy tears,What a joy to press the pillow    Of a cottage chamber bed,And to listen to the patter    Of the soft rain overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Every tinkle on the shingles    Has an echo in the heart,And a thousand dreamy fancies    Into busy being start;And a thousand recollections    Weave their air-threads into woofAs I listen to the patter    Of the rain upon the roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Now in memory comes my mother    As she used in years agone,To survey her darling dreamers    Ere she left them till the dawn.Oh! I see her leaning o\u2019er me    As I list to this refrainWhich is played upon the shingles    By the patter of the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Then my little seraph sister,    With her wings and waving hair,And her bright-eyed cherub brother\u2014    A serene, angelic pair\u2014Glide around my wakeful pillow    With their praise or mild reproofAs I listen to the murmur    Of the soft rain on the roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

And another comes to thrill me    With her eyes\u2019 delicious blue;And forgot I, gazing on her,    That her heart was all untrue;I remember that I loved her    As I ne\u2019er may love again,And my heart\u2019s quick pulses vibrate    To the patter of the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

There is naught in art\u2019s bravuras    That can work with such a spellIn the spirit\u2019s pure deep fountains    Whence the holy passions swellAs that melody of Nature,    That subdued, subduing strainWhich is played upon the shingles    By the patter of the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, March 2, 1915. By Coates Kinney. When the humid shadows hover    Over all the starry spheres,And the melancholy darkness    Gently weeps in rainy tears,What a joy to press the pillow    Of a cottage chamber bed,And to listen to the patter    Of the soft rain overhead. Every tinkle on the shingles    Has an echo in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-9207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers","tag-coates-kinney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}