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Some proverbs on water or rain.?

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  1. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

    Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

    Source: Before the Rain  

    A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.

    Author: Edwin Arnold

    Source: The Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 215)  

    He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

    Author: Bible

    Source: Psalms (ch. LXXII, v. 6)

      

    She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

    Author: Mary Mapes Dodge

    Source: How the Raid Comes--April  

    How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.

    Author: Rossiter Johnson

    Source: Rhyme of the Rain  

    Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

    Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Source: An April Day  

    And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

    Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Source: Midnight Mass for the Dying Year (st. 4)

      

    The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

    Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Source: The Rainy Day  

    The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane, Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.

    Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Source: Travels by the Fireside (st. 1)

      

    It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.

    Author: Robert Loveman

    Source: April Rain, appeared in "Harper's Magazine", May, 1901


  2. jab rain aati hai to India ki galiyo me bahot water

    ikkaththa ho jaata hai

    jo mujhe bilkul achcha nahi lagta

    hahahaha:))))

    thx for 2 points

    best of luck!!

    keep smiling:))

  3. Don't empty the water jar untill the rain fall. (Philippine proverb)

    A waster of water is a waster of better. (Old Irish Adge)

    Flowing water never goes bad;

    our doorways never gather termites. (Chinese proverb)

    Rain does not fall on one roof alone. (Proverb from Cameroon)

    No one can see their reflection in running water.  

    It is only in still water that we can see. (Taoist proverb)

    The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun. (African Proverbs)

    Look for rain when the crow flies low. (Proverbs & Sayings form american folklore)

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