<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366850" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The First Night Of Fall And Falling Rain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The common rain had come again<br>Slanting and colorless, pale and anonymous,<br>Fainting falling in the first evening<br>Of the first perception of the actual fall,<br>The long and late light had slowly gathered up<br>A sooty wood of clouded sky, dim and distant more and<br> more<br>Until, at dusk, the very sense of selfhood waned, <br>A weakening nothing halted, diminished or denied or set<br> aside,<br>Neither tea, nor, after an hour, whiskey,<br>Ice and then a pleasant glow, a burning,<br>And the first leaping wood fire<br>Since a cold night in May, too long ago to be more than<br>Merely a cold and vivid memory.<br>Staring, empty, and without thought<br>Beyond the rising mists of the emotion of causeless<br> sadness,<br>How suddenly all consciousness leaped in spontaneous<br> gladness,<br>Knowing without thinking how the falling rain (outside, all<br> over)<br>In slow sustained consistent vibration all over outside <br>Tapping window, streaking roof,<br> running down runnel and drain<br>Waking a sense, once more, of all that lived outside of us, <br>Beyond emotion, for beyond the swollen<br> distorted shadows and lights<br>Of the toy town and the vanity fair<br> of waking consciousness!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Delmore+Schwartz">Delmore Schwartz</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366850" data-title="The First Night Of Fall And Falling Rain de Delmore Schwartz" data-description="The common rain had come again Slanting and colorless, pale and anonymous, Fainting falling in the first evening Of the first perception of the actual fall, The long and late light had slowly gathered up A sooty wood of clouded sky, dim and distan..."></div> </div> </div>

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