Come To Me When I'm Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDCDCECE FGFGCGCG HIHICJCJ FIFICKCK ILILIIII MNMNOIPI FQFRCSCS FTFTCUCU QVQVCFCF| A | |
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| A SONG | B |
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| Come to me when I'm dying | C |
| Gaze on my wasted form | D |
| Tired with so long defying | C |
| Life's ever rushing storm | D |
| Come come when I am dying | C |
| And stand beside my bed | E |
| Ere yet my soul is flying | C |
| And I am cold and dead | E |
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| Bend low and lower o'er me | F |
| For I've a word to say | G |
| Though death is just before me | F |
| Ere I can go away | G |
| Now that my soul is hovering | C |
| Upon the verge of day | G |
| For thee I'll lift the covering | C |
| That veils its quivering ray | G |
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| O ne'er had I thus spoken | H |
| In health's bright rosy glow | I |
| But death my pride hath broken | H |
| And brought my spirit low | I |
| Though now this last revealing | C |
| Quickens life's curdling springs | J |
| And a half timid feeling | C |
| Faint flushes o'er me flings | J |
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| Bend lower yet above me | F |
| For I would have thee know | I |
| How passing well I love thee | F |
| And joy to tell thee so | I |
| This love so purely welling | C |
| Up in this heart of mine | K |
| O hath it e'er found dwelling | C |
| Within thy spirit's shrine | K |
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| I've prayed my God in meekness | I |
| To give me some control | L |
| Over this earthly weakness | I |
| That so enthralled my soul | L |
| And now my soul rejoices | I |
| While sweetly thrilling strains | I |
| From low harmonious voices | I |
| Soothe all my dying pains | I |
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| They sing of the Eternal | M |
| Whose throne is far above | N |
| Where zephyrs softly vernal | M |
| Float over bowers of love | N |
| Of hopes and joys earth blighted | O |
| Blooming 'neath cloudless skies | I |
| Of hearts and souls united | P |
| In love that never dies | I |
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| 'Tis there 'tis there I'll meet thee | F |
| When life's brief day is o'er | Q |
| O with what joy to greet thee | F |
| On that eternal shore | R |
| Farewell for death is chilling | C |
| My pulses swift and fast | S |
| And yet in God I'm willing | C |
| This hour should be my last | S |
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| Sometimes when day declineth | F |
| And all the gorgeous west | T |
| In gold and purple shineth | F |
| Go to my place of rest | T |
| And if thy voice in weeping | C |
| Is borne upon the air | U |
| Think not of me as sleeping | C |
| All cold and silent there | U |
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| But turn with glances tender | Q |
| Toward a shining star | V |
| Whose rays with chastened splendor | Q |
| Fall on thee from afar | V |
| And know the blissful dwelling | C |
| Where I am waiting thee | F |
| When Jordan fiercely swelling | C |
| Shall set thy spirit free | F |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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