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Coates Kinney (November 24, 1826 – January 25, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, journalist and poet who wrote Rain On The Roof . Biography. Coates Kinney was born in 1826 near Penn Yan, New York.
‘Rain on the Roof’ by Coates Kinney is a fairly simple, yet beautifully memorable depiction of the way that rain can evoke memories.
Coates Kinney was an American lawyer, judge, and poet. He is best known for his poem "Rain on the Roof", which is still popular today and frequently anthologized in collections of American poetry. Kinney wrote during a period of great change and upheaval in the United States, marked by the Civil War and the rapid industrialization of the nation.
Coates Kinney was an American lawyer, journalist, politician, and poet, known for his lyrical work “Rain On The Roof.” Born in 1826 in New York, he studied law and journalism, served in the U.S. Army, and was a notable political figure in Ohio.
Coates Kinney was a lawyer, journalist and poet from the United States. He was partly educated at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, studied law with Thomas Corwin, and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1856.
Coates Kinney was born on the west bank of Crooked Lake—Keeuka in Indian—not far from Penn Yan, in Yates county, New York, November twenty-four, 1826. Without any aid from his parents, their gifted son has obtained a liberal education by his own exertions. . . .
A serene, angelic pair!— Glide around my wakeful pillow, With their praise or mild reproof, As I listen to the murmur. Of the soft rain on the roof. And another comes, to thrill me. With her eyes’ delicious blue; And I mind not, gazing on her, That her heart was all untrue:
