That’s a point well illustrated by Ned Rorem’s palindromic song cycle “Poems of Love and the Rain,” for mezzo-soprano and piano. The soloist sings eight poems by writers such as W.

The small rain down can rain? Christ! If my love were in my arms, And I in my bed again! Enda Wyley’s latest collection is Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems (2014) If you could only take my ...

Even while making love or playing a sport or eating ... Pinsky brings this sense of his origins into “Jersey Rain,” from our April 2000 issue. In the poem, he imputes a sort of magic to ...

It feels impolite not to fall in love during the monsoon ... in quick succession tells you that is a 21st-century poem — for rain today is more likely to be an outpouring of dangerous pollutants ...

Owing much to the New York School and displaying hints of Romanticism, Simon's poems are replete with moments ... In "Mendocino," the feeling of love amid ancient redwoods and "cloud banks out ...