Summer Rain

Text of Poem	I stayed in the field though the rain was beginning to fall While the whips of lightning were cracking above my head And watched the rain fingers lift my sun-beaten corn With the grace of a miracle bringing life to the dead. It was none of my doing and yet I felt like a god Bestowing his pity and strength in the way he designed. Then the feeling passed and I stood there drenched to the skin Trying to keep the picture deep in my mind.
First Line	I stayed in the field though the rain was
Original Pub Location	Independent
Original Publication Date	1927
Original Citation	Independent 26 (Feb. 1927) 244.
Complete Poems	29
Hearst Collections	Country Men (1937) xxxii, (1938) 54, (1943) 61.
Word Count	86
Variant	A revision and retitling of the previously published "Beauty." I stayed in the field though the rain was beginning to fall While the whips of lightning were cracking above my head And watched the rain fingers lift my sun-beaten corn Like Christ in a miracle bringing life to the dead. It was none of my doing and yet I felt like a god Bestowing his pity and strength in the way he designed. Then the feeling passed and I stood there drenched to the skin Trying to etch the picture deep in my mind.
Poetic Form	open
Bibliographic Notes	Published as "Beauty" in 1927
Themes	rain drought
Twitter Quote	the rain fingers lift my / sun-beaten corn

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