The Rainbow

Love is a rainbow that appears
When heaven’s sunshine lights earth’s tears.

All varied colors of the light
Within its beauteous arch unite:

There Passion’s glowing crimson hue
Burns near Truth’s rich and deathless blue;

And Jealousy’s green lights unfold
‘Mid Pleasure’s tints of flame and gold.

O dark life’s stormy sky would seem,
If love’s clear rainbow did not gleam!

Credit

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 11, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets. 

About this Poem

“The Rainbow” originally appeared in Rosemary and Pansies (Gorham Press, 1909)