New York is a jungle, they tell you.You could go further, and say that New York is a jungle. New York is a jungle. Beneath the columns of the old rain forest, made of melting macadam, the mean Limpopo of swamped Ninth Avenue bears an angry argosy of crocs and dragons, tiger fish, noise machines, sweating rainmakers.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  Money.

Westron winde, when wilt thou blow, The smalle raine downe can raine? Christ if my love were in my armes, And I in my bed againe.

-Anonymous
c.1500  Untitled lyric.

So have I heard the cuckoo's parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: 'The bloom isgone, and with the bloom go I.'

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.57^60.

The sky is darkening like a stain; Something isgoing to fall like rain, And it won't be flowers.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'The Witness'.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter W H  Auden (1981), pt.2, ch.6.

Give ear,O ye heavens, and I will speak: and hear,O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon thetender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 32:1^2.

There is a sound of abundance of rain.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings18:41.

Haththeraina father? or who hathbegottenthedrops of dew?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 38:28.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 84:6^7.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because theyare few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and mournersgo about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes12:1^7.

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fairone, and come away.For lo, thewinter ispast, the rain is over and gone.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 2:10^11.

Foras therain cometh down, and thesnow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and makethit bring forthand bud, that it maygiveseedtothe sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 55:10^11.

   Steel prices cause inflation like wet sidewalks cause rain.

-Blough, Roger M(iles)
  In Forbes,1  Aug.

Irish hurricane, a flat calm with drizzling rain.

-Bowen, Frank Charles
  Sea Slang, a Dictionary of the Old-Timers' Expressions and Epithets.

They don't spend themselves in relationships until they know what the odds are; long hours spent as babies lying in the rain outside greengrocers'shops have made them tough.

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Stepping Westward, bk.2, ch.4.

If you want to be vice-president, stand out here in the rain in your underwear and let everybody see what you're made of.

-Brady, Nicholas F(rederick)
  On the need to strip the secrecy from selection of vice- presidential candidates instead of having surprise choices such as Dan Quayle. In the Washington Post, 28  Aug.

When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unkindled, uncoffined, and unknown.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza179.

But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'söto coinawordötheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

-Cooke, (Alfred) Alistair
Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

  nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
w,'somewhere I have never travelled'.

Do not expect again a phoenix hour, The triple-towered sky, the dove complaining, Sudden the rain of gold and heart's first ease Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown.

-Day-Lewis, Cecil
  'From Feathers to Iron'.