Souls and Rain-Drops

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Souls and Rain-Drops
by Sidney Lanier

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The date and place of this composition is not given, and it was not published in his lifetime. In the volume of complete works The Poems of Sidney Lanier, published posthumously, this poem was characterized as one his “unrevised early works.”

117549Souls and Rain-DropsSidney Lanier

Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,
Then vanish, and die utterly.
One would not know that rain-drops fell
If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.

So souls come down and wrinkle life
And vanish in the flesh-sea strife.
One might not know that souls had place
Were’t not for the wrinkles in life’s face.

Souls and Rain-Drops

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