Four Points In A Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCEFFEGDDGHIIHDJJD DKKDLL A M LDDNNBO LPPQQRO LKKSSSO LKKTTTO LUUVVVO LJJDDDO A J KDKD WDWD NDND KXKX DDDD DYDZ KDKKD V X KDKDWW UIUIKK JKJKDD JA2JA2LL LDLDLL JDJDB2B2 B2WB2WDD DRDRDDI | A |
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LOVE'S DAWN | B |
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Still thine eyes haunt me in the darkness now | C |
The dreamtime the hushed stillness of the night | D |
I see them shining pure and earnest light | D |
And here all lonely may I not avow | C |
The thrill with which I ever meet their glance | E |
At first they gazed a calm abstracted gaze | F |
The while thy soul was floating through some maze | F |
Of beautiful divinely peopled trance | E |
But now I shrink from them in shame and fear | G |
For they are gathering all their beams of light | D |
Into an arrow keen intense and bright | D |
Swerveless and starlike from its deep blue sphere | G |
Piercing the cavernous darkness of my soul | H |
Burning its foul recesses into view | I |
Transfixing with sharp agony through and through | I |
Whatever ls not brave and clean and whole | H |
And yet I will not shrink although thou piercest | D |
Into the inmost depths of all my being | J |
I will not shrink although though now art seeing | J |
My heart's caged lusts the wildest and the fiercest | D |
The cynic thoughts that fret my homeless mind | D |
My unbelief my selfishness my weakness | K |
My dismal lack of charity and meekness | K |
For amidst all the evil thou must find | D |
Pervading cleansing and transmuting me | L |
A fervent and most holy love for thee | L |
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II | A |
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MARRIAGE | M |
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Come to me oh come to me | L |
Time is long since we were parted | D |
I am sad and weary hearted | D |
Foiled and almost overthrown | N |
Fighting with the world alone | N |
What am I when thou art gone | B |
Come darling soon | O |
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Come to me oh come to me | L |
Let my failing head find rest Love | P |
On thy pure and tender breast Love | P |
Calm my overwearied brain | Q |
Soothe away my heart's chill pain | Q |
Bring me hope and strength again | R |
Come darling soon | O |
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Come to me oh come to me | L |
Evermore the memory lingers | K |
How your gentle flower soft fingers | K |
With a touch when I lay ill | S |
Through my fevered frame could thrill | S |
Cool rich life divinely still | S |
Come darling soon | O |
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Come to me oh come to me | L |
Dearest heart of love and meekness | K |
Is not this unmanly weakness | K |
Ah with thee such pure sweet calm | T |
Heals my wounds with heavenly balm | T |
I fighting feel my spear a palm | T |
Come darling soon | O |
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Come to me oh come to me | L |
Though its perils groomed more fearful | U |
I could fight undaunted cheerful | U |
This stern Agony called Life | V |
Were the pauses of the strife | V |
Blest by thee my noble Wife | V |
Come darling soon | O |
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Come to me oh come to me | L |
Strength and hope and faith are waning | J |
With this fierce and pauseless straining | J |
Ere my soul be conquered quite | D |
Ere I fail from Truth and Right | D |
Come my Life my joy my Light | D |
Come Darling soon | O |
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III | A |
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PARTING | J |
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Weep not Dearest weep not so | K |
Soon again we two shall meet | D |
Who now part in bitter woe | K |
After pain shall bliss be sweet | D |
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Few more years of numb despair | W |
Must we wander far apart | D |
Through the desert dead and bare | W |
Love is courage in the heart | D |
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Few more years of bitter moan | N |
O'er the rugged mountain height | D |
Must we toil on each alone | N |
Love can make all burdens light | D |
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Few more years of stricken woe | K |
Erring on an alien shore | X |
Lone and friendless each must go | K |
We will love then more and more | X |
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Few short hours of doubt and dread | D |
Trembling on the brink of Night | D |
Spectre haunted each must tread | D |
Love can burn all darkness bright | D |
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All the long lone years must die | D |
Then shall we together come | Y |
Where beneath a calm bright sky | D |
Bright waves bear us to our home | Z |
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Weep not Dearest weep not so | K |
Soon again we two must meet | D |
Where the calm deep waters flow | K |
Soothing surely care and woe | K |
With their mystic murmur sweet | D |
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IV | V |
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AT DEATH'S DOOR | X |
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Is this the second childhood's feeble sadness | K |
My eyes are dim now and my hair is white | D |
Yet never did the sunshine give more gladness | K |
Never young Spring burst forth in green delight | D |
More freshly never was the earth more fair | W |
Never more rapture in the common air | W |
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Still as I near great Death it seems his portal | U |
Glides gently backward that I may gaze through | I |
And glimpse far glories of the realm immortal | U |
The world becomes transparent to my view | I |
Diviner Heavens expand beyond the skies | K |
The stars grow thoughtful with eternal eyes | K |
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How the green grass and every flower swell yearning | J |
To hint more clearly some high loveliness | K |
Whose mystic soul within their forms is burning | J |
How strives the sea for ever to express | K |
With infinite heavings murmurings manifold | D |
Some secret grandeur that will not be told | D |
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The life of day is lulled to dreamful musing | J |
And true life waketh in the world of dream | A2 |
While with the Present strangely interfusing | J |
The Future and the Past together stream | A2 |
As if the long drawn waves of Time should be | L |
Settling and mingling in Eternity | L |
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With every golden dawn awakened lightly | L |
I think I must have slept through Death's calm night | D |
For lo how purely silently and brightly | L |
The Heavens unfold their gates before my sight | D |
The tranced sea of crystal spreadeth slowly | L |
The burning Throne lives out with splendours holy | L |
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Whereon I look to see thee come swift greeting | J |
From where thou waitest for my laggard feet | D |
Assured beyond impatience for the meeting | J |
Crowned with triumphant love and faith complete | D |
I look in vain as yet but every hour | B2 |
So summer rich may make the bud a flower | B2 |
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How well my Love the thoughtful Heavens endeavour | B2 |
To make this world and life and time all bear | W |
Dream lightly on the soul ere it for ever | B2 |
Be parted from them Did I once despair | W |
Through years of lonely anguish unassuaged | D |
This calm can scarce believe that storms have raged | D |
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Here is the blessing I now muse enchanted | D |
In this sweet dawnlike sunset night comes then | R |
Of restful sleep by gracious visions haunted | D |
So with new morning I shall rise again | R |
Full of young life and find my Love for aye | D |
My Love whom I have missed this long sad day | D |
James Thomson
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