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“rain” + train, grain across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced any of these terms. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 90 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 0 / 58 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 8 / 685 1850s 12 / 943 1900s 37 / 1120 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 12 with this theme Show all eras

A drop fell on the apple tree

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A drop fell on the apple tree

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

A Sheep Fair

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A Sheep Fair

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

A Thunder-Storm

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A Thunder-Storm

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

A Thunderstorm in Town

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A Thunderstorm in Town

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Before Sunset

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Before Sunset

by Algernon Charles Swinburne · English

5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 (~72)

Il vento scrive

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Il vento scrive

by Gabriele D'Annunzio · Italian

12 March 1863 - 1 March 1938 (~75)

Love in Dreams

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Love in Dreams

by Arthur Symons · English

28 February 1865 - 22 January 1945 (~80)

Rain and Tears

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Rain and Tears

by Edward James Mortimer Collins · English

29 June 1827 - 28 July 1876 (~49)

Rain on a Grave

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Rain on a Grave

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Rose and Rue

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Rose and Rue

by Oscar Wilde · English

16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900 (~46)

Spleen

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Spleen

by Charles Baudelaire · French

9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867 (~46)

Winter Rain

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Winter Rain

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

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