It only took me 11 years to get to it, Stewart, but I just read Newman Levy's 1933 poem "Rain," which you posted in 2000. It's almost exactly the plot of the 1953 Rita Hayworth movie, Miss Sadie Thompson. Turns out that Sadie Thompson was the main character in four movies, the first played by Gloria Swanson in the 1928 movie Sadie Thompson.

Wikipedia has quite a story on the Sadie Thompson saga, which apparently started out in 1921 as a Somerset Maugham short story titled "Miss Thompson" (click for text) (audio version here-click). Apparently, the title of the Somerset Maugham story was later changed to "Rain." So, the Newman Levy song came after the short story and one or two of the movies.

-Joe-