In my opinion, this poem is about loss, specifically, the loss of possiblities that occurs in all people as we age. It talks of the memories of times and people and feelings past that can never come again. I believe the lines you cite speak to this idea.
In these lines, the ghosts of these past things are in the rain. They are tapping at her window, asking her to remember them, waiting for a reply.
But she can not completely reply to them because they are part of the past and that "summer" that they were part of sings in her no more.
So, your three lines are specifically referring to the ghosts and memories of past feelings and people and events. They are asking to be with her again, but she can not be with them because the part of her that knew them is gone forever.
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