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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature, Rain, Struggle
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rain, Fall, Heart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pain, Rain, Sadness
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.302, Penguin

How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful, Rain, Dust
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.85

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Change, Rain, Moon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rain, Sunset, Night
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Hanging of the Crane”, p.43

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Gratitude, Rain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.94

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rain, Weather, Silent
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.150

The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fall, Rain, Sleep
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rain, Dark, Wind
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Rainy Day”

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wall, Rain, Fall
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love, Spring, Rain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Rain, Fall
"The Rainy Day" st. 3 (1842)

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stars, Rain, Clouds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.163

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rain, Clouds, Friars
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6

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