“And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
Source: Collected Poems
The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Context: A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. I always thought so myself; the Maine woods never seem so fresh and alive as in wet weather. Then all the needles on the evergreens wear a sheath of silver; ferns seem to have grown to almost tropical lushness and every leaf has its edging of crystal drops. Strangely colored fungi — mustard-yellow and apricot and scarlet — are pushing out of the leaf mold and all the lichens and the mosses have come alive with green and silver freshness.
“And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
Source: Collected Poems
Waylon Jennings (1937–2002) American country music singer, songwriter, and musician
Rainy Day Woman, from The Ramblin' Man (1974).
Song lyrics
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!
“Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
“Those days in the woods saved my life many a time in combat.”
Chesty Puller (1898–1971) United States Marine Corps general
Recalling his early days trapping muskrats before school to supplement his mother's income
The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot, 2002.
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Variant: Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
“I can see the light of day
Even through the rainy haze.”
Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter
Dark White Girl
Resurrection (2014)
“what a cold and rainy day
where on earth is the sun hid away?”
Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter
Song lyrics, In My Tribe (1987), Like The Weather