Курсовая работа: An Evergreen topic in British classical literature, children’s poems and everyday speech: patterns of climate in the British isles

In winter time we go

Walking in the fields of snow;

Where there is no grass at all;

Where the top of every wall,

Every house and every tree

Is as white, as white can be.

And our footprints in the snow

Where the children go.

* * *

Skating, skating,

Boys and girls so gay

Like to skate together

On a winter day.

Rain is a familiar feature of the British climate in any season English literature:

“Lord, this is a huge rain! This was a weather to sleep in!” (Geoffey Chaucer);

“All day the low-hung clouds have dropped their garnered fullness down; all day that soft gray mist hath wrapped hill, valley, grove and town” (Caroline Southey);

“I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, from the seas and the streams” (Percy Bysshe Shelley);

“Oft a little morning rain foretells a pleasant day” (Charlotte Bronte).

There are lots of children’s poems about rain:

The sun is shining.

Flowers are blooming.

The sky is blue

And rains are few.

* * *

“Rain, rain go to Spain,

Never show your face again”

* * *

Rain, rain go away,

Come again another day,