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August 2, 2015
 

Summer Rain

 
Amy Lowell

About This Poem

 

“Summer Rain” was published in Pictures of the Floating World (The Macmillan Company, 1919).

 

Amy Lowell was born on February 9, 1874, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her books include Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) and her Pulitzer Prize-winning book What’s O’ Clock (1925). Lowell died on May 12, 1925, in Massachusetts.

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Poetry by Lowell

 

Amy Lowell: Selected Poems

(Library of America, 2004)

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