The poem describes the feeling of coziness and nostalgia experienced while listening to the sound of rain falling on the roof. As the narrator lies in bed listening to the rain, memories and dreams are stirred. The pattering of the rain brings back images of the narrator's mother watching over them as a child before bed. Listening to the rain evokes both comfort and recollections of the past.

1. Rain on the Roof
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Subject: English
Grade: IX
Topic: Rain on the Roof
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When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres,
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a joy to press the pillow
Of a cottage-chamber bed,
And to listen to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead!

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Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start,
And a thousand recollections
Weave their bright hues into woof,
As I listen to the patter
Of the rain upon the roof.

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Now in fancy comes my mother,
As she used to, years agone,
To survey her darling dreamers,
Ere she left them till the dawn;
Oh! I see her bending o’er me,
As I list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain.