Poet Hilda Conkling

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Poem-sketch In Three Parts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB C DEFGHIJBK J BHLMN OPQMBRSILBDDP T BUVBBTWXYBZ

Made for the picture on the jacket of theA
Norwegian book The Great Hunger by Johan BojerB
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I-
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The Rolling In Of The WaveC
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It was night when the sky was dark blueD
And the water came in with a wavy lookE
Like a spider's webF
The point of the slope came down to the water's edgeG
It was green with a fairy ring of forget me not and fernH
The white foam licked the side of the slopeI
As it came up and bent backwardJ
It curled up like a beautiful cinder treeB
Bending in the windK
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II-
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The Coming Of The Great BirdJ
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A boy was watching the waterB
As it came lapping the edge of fernH
Little ships passed himL
As the moon came leaning across dark blue rays of lightM
The spruce trees saw the white ships sailing awayN
And the moon bending up the blue sky-
Where stars were twinkling like fairy lampsO
The boy was looking toward foreign landsP
As the ships passedQ
Their white sails glittering in the moonlightM
He was thinking how he wished to seeB
Foreign lands strange peopleR
When suddenly a bird came flyingS
It swooped down upon the slopeI
And spoke to himL
Do you want to go across the deep blue seaB
Get on my back I will take youD
Oh cried the little boy who sent youD
Who knew my thoughts of foreign landsP
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III-
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The IslandT
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They flew as the night wind flowed very softlyB
They heard sweet singing that the water sangU
They came to a place where the sea was shallowV
And saw treasure hidden thereB
There was one poplar treeB
On the lonely islandT
Swaying for sadnessW
The clouds went over their headsX
Like a fleet of drifting shipsY
And there they sank down out of the airB
Into the dreamZ

Hilda Conkling



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