Rainbow

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Look at the rainbow  in the clear sky After the rain Dancing with glee Grinning at me Making my day All the colours are mine All the joy is mine Does the rainbow feel The same about me too?

Maj · Accepted Answer

I look in your eyes
I see the rainbow of my life
I look at the sky
I see the drops of my sorrows
dancing like pearls in white
Your colours brighten my day
Your joy shortens my nights
Nothing feels the same
if you are not by my side.

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MrPedantic · Answer

'All the colours are mine' I like.

You probably know this rainbow poem by Wordsworth:

MY heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow old
Or let me die!
The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

And this passage from Keats's Lamia:

Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine—
Unweave a rainbow...

(which I've never been entirely sure about).

That's all I can remember though. For a wet country, we have surprisingly few 'rainbow' poems...

MrP

Anita_a · Answer

Well, nature poems have always appealed to me especially all of Wordsworth's nature poems.
After Daffodils, this is the second best of his poems that I like.

Sometimes Keats is really difficult to understand... I agree with you on this one here...

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