340. After Rain by Edward Thomas
b"E Thomas read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nAfter Rain\\nby Edward Thomas (1878 \\u2013 1917)\\n\\nThe rain of a night and a day and a night\\nStops at the light\\nOf this pale choked day. The peering sun\\nSees what has been done.\\nThe road under the trees has a border new\\nof purple hue\\nInside the border of bright thin grass:\\nFor all that has\\nBeen left by November of leaves is torn\\nFrom hazel and thorn\\nAnd the greater trees. Throughout the copse\\nNo dead leaf drops\\nOn grey grass, green moss, burnt-orange fern,\\nAt the wind's return:\\nThe leaflets out of the ash-tree shed\\nAre thinly spread\\nIn the road, like little black fish, inlaid,\\nAs if they played.\\nWhat hangs from the myriad branches down there\\nSo hard and bare\\nIs twelve yellow apples lovely to see\\nOn one crab-tree.\\nAnd on each twig of every tree in the dell\\nUncountable\\nCrystals both dark and bright of the the rain\\nThat begins again.\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 10 September 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"