Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKMNN OPQPRR STSTUU VWVWXX YZYZZZ A2B2A2B2C2C2| Night is the time for rest | A |
| How sweet when labors close | B |
| To gather round an aching breast | A |
| The curtain of repose | C |
| Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head | D |
| Down on our own delightful bed | D |
| - | |
| Night is the time for dreams | E |
| The gay romance of life | F |
| When truth that is and truth that seems | E |
| Blend in fantastic strife | F |
| Ah visions less beguiling far | G |
| Than waking dreams by daylight are | G |
| - | |
| Night is the time for toil | H |
| To plough the classic field | I |
| Intent to find the buried spoil | H |
| Its wealthy furrows yield | I |
| Till all is ours that sages taught | J |
| That poets sang or heroes wrought | J |
| - | |
| Night is the time to weep | K |
| To wet with unseen tears | L |
| Those graves of Memory where sleep | K |
| The joys of other years | M |
| Hopes that were Angels at their birth | N |
| But perished young like things of earth | N |
| - | |
| Night is the time to watch | O |
| O'er ocean's dark expanse | P |
| To hail the Pleiades or catch | Q |
| The full moon's earliest glance | P |
| That brings into the homesick mind | R |
| All we have loved and left behind | R |
| - | |
| Night is the time for care | S |
| Brooding on hours misspent | T |
| To see the spectre of Despair | S |
| Come to our lonely tent | T |
| Like Brutus 'midst his slumbering host | U |
| Summoned to die by Caesar's ghost | U |
| - | |
| Night is the time to think | V |
| When from the eye the soul | W |
| Takes flight and on the utmost brink | V |
| Of yonder starry pole | W |
| Descries beyond the abyss of night | X |
| The dawn of uncreated light | X |
| - | |
| Night is the time to pray | Y |
| Our Saviour oft withdrew | Z |
| To desert mountains far away | Y |
| So will his followers do | Z |
| Steal from the throng to haunts untrod | Z |
| And hold communion there with God | Z |
| - | |
| Night is the time for Death | A2 |
| When all around is peace | B2 |
| Calmly to yield the weary breath | A2 |
| From sin and suffering cease | B2 |
| Think of heaven's bliss and give the sign | C2 |
| To parting friends such death be mine | C2 |
James Montgomery
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Night
Night is a poem by James Montgomery. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Night poem by James Montgomery
Best Poems of James Montgomery