"The Rainy Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poetry reading)

[funnybunches320]

Pause this.

go to Rainymood(dot)com

Enjoy this poem even more.

[vickiehill1]

I am so happy that poets have had the courage to be real & not worry that people would think their genius a "downer". I love it. Simply beautiful. 

[thissong4you]

I love Longfellow. The meter and rhythm of his poetry is, to me, the heartbeat of 19th century America. The grief in this poem, and your reading of it, pierces one's empathic core. I cannot hear it without thinking ahead to "Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair," and hoping that his love of his daughter's helped him find the sun still shining behind the clouds. Thank you for this reading, Tom. The timbre and timing is perfect.

[Xylok]

awesome awesome poem, thanks for sharing.

[drryllo]

made a song about this poem, check my channel

[MsRadomness]

Thats my great great great something grandfather! :D

[MiracleUR2Me]

Wonderful reading. Thank you!

[DemeterEuropa]

It reminds me of a song by the carpenters called "rainy days and mondays"

[mysticmagic4760]

Beautiful!

[andrewlondonbook]

A very powerful piece. I cannot imagine anyone ridiculing or despising him; I have always respected his work. Thanks for this wonderful piece.

[kwinni]

Thank you so much.

[homousios]

Thanks for including some information about the poem. This added to its poignancy

[scifiwritir]

"into each life some rain must fall." Indeed. Thanks, Spoken.