"Raindrop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a raindrop, and you were a leaf, I would burst from the cloud above you, And lie on your breast in a rapture of rest, And love ...
— The Englishman and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... world resembled a dripping sponge, Percival reached the limit of his endurance. The canvas was down, and nothing could be seen but long vistas of slippery decks, with barefooted Chinese sailors everlastingly mopping and slopping about in the wet. He had counted the five hundred and fiftieth raindrop that clung to the red life-belt at the rail when he saw the young Scotchman next him look at ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... but calculating their crop, and thinking how soon it will be ripe, so that they can go to your neighbor, who is good for a year or so longer; doctors assiduous, but giving themselves a mental shake, as they go out of your door, which throws off your particular grief as a duck sheds a raindrop from his oily feathers; undertakers solemn, but happy; then the great subsoil cultivator, who plants, but never looks for fruit in his garden; then the stone-cutter, who puts your name on the slab which has been waiting ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
... sea-change, the life of the foam on the edge of the depths. Or it transports him into some mid-region of the air, between hell and heaven, where he hangs listening. He listens at all his senses. The dew, as well as the raindrop, ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons |
