Songs Of Two Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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IA
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Last night I dreamed this dream That I was deadB
And as I slept forgot of man and GodC
That other dreamless sleep of restD
I heard a footstep on the sodC
As of one passing overheadB
And lo thou Dear didst touch me on the breastD
Saying What shall I write against thy nameE
That men should seeF
Then quick the answer cameE
I was beloved of theeF
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IIA
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Dear Giver of Thyself when at thy sideG
I see the path beyond divideG
Where we must walk alone a little spaceH
I say Now am I strong indeedI
To wait with only memory awhileJ
Content until I see thy faceH
Yet turn as one in sorest needI
To ask once more thy giving graceH
So at the lastK
Of all our partings when the nightL
Has hidden from my failing sightL
The comfort of thy smileJ
My hand shall seek thine own to hold it fastK
Nor wilt thou think for this the heart ingrateK
Less glad for all its pastK
Less strong to bear the utmost of its fateK
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IIIA
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As once through forest shade I wentK
I heard a flower call and bentK
Then strove to go Should love not spareM
Nay Dearest this is love's sweet shareM
Of selfishness For which is bestK
To die alone or on thy breastK
If thou hast heard my callN
Take fearlessly thou art my guestK
To give is allN
Hush O Love thou casuistK
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IV-
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Ask me not why I only knowO
It were thy loss if I could showO
Thee cause as for a lesser thingP
Remember how we searched the springP
But found no source so clear the skyA
Within its earth bound depths did lieA
Give to thy joy its wingsQ
And to thy heart its song nor tryA
With questioningsQ
The throbbing throat that singsQ
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V-
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For in thy clear and steadfast eyesR
Thine own self wonder deepest liesR
Nor any words that lips can teachS
Are sweeter than their wonder speechS
And when thou givest them to me-
Through dawns of tenderness I see-
As in the water skyA
The sun of certainly appearT
So ask me whyA
For then thou knowest DearT
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VIA
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To give is more than to receive men sayU
But thou hast made them one What if some dayU
Men bade me render back the gifts I cannot payU
Since all were undeserved should I obeyU
Lo all these years of giving when we tryA
To own our thanks we hear the giver cryA
Nay it was thou who givest Dear not IA
If Wisdom smile let Wisdom goO
All things above-
This is the truest that we know because we love-
Not love because we knowO
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VII-
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Let it not grieve thee Dear that Love is sadK
Who changeless loveth so the things that changeV
The morning in thine eyes the dusk within thy hairM
Were it not strangeV
If he were gladK
Who cannot keep thy heart from careM
Or shelter from the whip of painW
The bosom where his head hath lainW
Poor sentinel that may not guardK
The door that love itself unbarredK
Who in the sweetnessX
Of his service knows its incompletenessX
And while he singsX
Of life eternal feels the coldness of Death's wingsX
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VIII-
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Stoop with me Dearest to the grassX
One little moment ere we passX
From out these parched and thirsty landsX
See all these tiny blades are handsX
Stretched supplicating to the skyA
And listen Dearest patiently-
Dost thou not hear them move-
The myriad roots that search and cryA
As hearts do Love-
Feed us or let us dieA
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IXX
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Beloved when far up the mountain sideK
We found almost at eventideK
Our spring how far we did fearT
Lest it should dare the trackless woodK
And disappearT
And lost all heart when on the crest we stoodK
And saw it spent in mist belowO
Yet ever surer was its flowO
And ever gathering to its ownY
New springs of which we had not knownY
To fairer meadowsX
Swept exultant from the woodland shadowsX
And when at last upon the baffling plainW
We thought it scattered like a ravelled skeinW
Lo tranquil free-
Its longed for home the wide unfathomable sea-
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XX
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Thy names are like sweet flowers that growO
Within a garden where I goO
Sometimes at dawn to see each oneZ
Life its head proudly in the sunZ
Sometimes at nightK
When only by the fragrant airM
I know them thereM
And none are grieved or think I slightK
Their worth if closest to my breastK
This one I take which holds within its ownY
Each single fragrance of the restK
My friend my friendK
And as I loved it first aloneY
So shall I love it to the endK
For none were half so dear were it not bestK
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XI-
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My every purpose fashioned by some thought of thee-
Though as a feather's weight that shapes the arrow's flight it be-
No single joy complete in which thou hast no fee-
Though thy share be the star and mine its shadow in the sea-
Thy very pulse my pulse thy every prayer my prayerM
Thy love my blue o'erreaching sky that bounds me everywhereM
Yet free Beloved free for this encircling airM
I cannot leave behind doth but love's boundlessness declareM
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XII-
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Last night the angel of remembrance broughtK
Me while I slept think Dear of all his storeA2
Just that one memory I thoughtK
Banished forever from our doorA2
Thy sob of pain when once I hurt thee sureB2
Then in my dream I suddenly was wareM
Of God above me saying ReachS
Thy hand to Me in prayerM
And I will give thee pardon yetK
Thou Nay she hath forgiven teachS
Her to forgetK
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XIII-
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Love me not Dearest for the smileJ
The tender greeting or the wileJ
By which unconscious of its roadK
My soul seeks thine in its abodeK
Nor say I love thee of thine eyes-
For when Death shuts them where thy skies-
But love me for my love-
Then am I safe from all surprise-
And thou above-
The loss of all that dies-
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XIV-
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Dear hands forgiving hands-
There is no speech so sure as thingP
Lips falter with so muchC2
To tell eyes fill with thoughts I scarce divineD2
But thy least touchC2
Soul understands-
Dear giving taking hands-
There are no gifts so free as thineD2
One last gem from the heart of the mineD2
One last cup from the veins of the vineD2
From the rose to the wind one last sweet breathE2
Then poverty and deathE2
But thy dear palms-
Are richest empty asking alms-
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XV-
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A little moment at the endK
Of day left over in the candle lightK
On the shore of dreams on the edge of sleepF2
Too small to throw awayU
Too poor to keepF2
But it holds two words for thee dear FriendK
Good night Good nightK
And so this remnant of the dayU
Left over in the candle lightK
On the shore of dreams on the edge of sleepF2
Becomes too great to throw awayU
Too dear to keepF2
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XVI-
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Beloved when I read some fine conceitK
Wherein are wrought as in glass-
The features love hath made so sweetK
I marvel at so bold an artK
Seeing thou art too dear to praise-
Upon the highway where men pass-
For when I seekG2
To tell the ways-
God's hand of tenderness-
Hath touched thine earthly partK
Again I hearH2
Thy first own cry of happiness-
And sweetest of God's sounds the dearT
Remonstrance of thy giving heartK
And cannot speakG2
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XVII-
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Across the plain of TimeI2
I saw them marching all night longJ2
The endless throngJ2
Of all who ever dared to fight with wrongJ2
All the blood of their hearts the primeI2
And crown of their fleeting years-
All the toil of their hands the tears-
Of their eyes the thought of their brainW
For a word from the lips of TruthK2
For a glimpse of the scroll of FateK
Ere love and youthK2
Were spent in vainW
And even truth too lateK
Oh when the Silence speaks and the scrollL2
Unrolls to the eye of the soulL2
What will it be that shall pay the costK
Of the pain gone waste and the labor lostK
And then Dear waking I saw youM2
And knewM2
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XVIII-
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We thought when Love at last should comeN2
The rose would lose its thornO2
And every lip but Joy's be dumbN2
When Love sweet Love was bornO2
That never tears should start to rise-
No night o'ertake our mornO2
Nor any guest of grief surprise-
When Love sweet Love was bornO2
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And when he came O Heart of mineD2
And stood within our doorA2
No joy our dreaming could divineD2
Was missing from his storeA2
The thorns shall wound our hearts againP2
But not the fear of yoreA2
for all the guests of grief and painW
Shall serve him evermoreA2
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XIX-
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Dost thou remember Dear the dayU
We met in those bare woods of MayU
Each had a secret unconfessedU
Each sound a promise in each nestU
Young wings a tremble for the airM
How we joined hands not knowing whereM
The springs that touch set free-
Should find their sea-
Speechless so sure we were to shareM
The unknown good to be-
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XX-
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The woods are bare again There areQ2
No secrets now the bud's a scarQ2
No promises this is the endU
Ah Dearest I have seen thee bendU
Above thy flowers as one who knewM2
The dying wood should bloom anewM2
Come let us sleep Perchance-
God's countenance-
Like thine above thy flowers smiles throughM2
The night upon us twoM2

Arthur Sherburne Hardy



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