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Frances Shaw

  • Who loves the rain / And loves his home, / And looks on life with quiet eyes ...

    • Frances Shaw,
    • "Who Loves the Rain," in Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson, eds., The New Poetry: An Anthology ()
  • In the dark and peace of my final bed, / The wet grass waving above my head, / At rest from love, at rest from pain, / I lie and listen to the rain.

    • Frances Shaw,
    • "Little Pagan Rain Song," in Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson, eds., The New Poetry: An Anthology ()

Frances Shaw, U.S. poet

(1872 - 1937)

Full name: Frances Wells Shaw.