Songs Of The Night Watches, - The First Watch Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Songs Of The Night Watches, - The First Watch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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TIRED	A
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I	-
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O I would tell you more but I am tired	A
For I have longed and I have had my will	B
I pleaded in my spirit I desired	A
Ah let me only see him and be still	B
All my days after	C
Rock and rock and rock	D
Over the falling rising watery world	E
Sail beautiful ship along the leaping main	F
The chirping land birds follow flock on flock	D
To light on a warmer plain	F
White as weaned lambs the little wavelets curled	E
Fall over in harmless play	G
As these do far away	G
Sail bird of doom along the shimmering sea	H
All under thy broad wings that overshadow thee	H
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II	-
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I am so tired	A
If I would comfort me I know not how	I
For I have seen thee lad as I desired	A
And I have nothing left to long for now	I
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Nothing at all And did I wait for thee	H
Often and often while the light grew dim	J
And through the lilac branches I could see	H
Under a saffron sky the purple rim	J
O' the heaving moorland Ay And then would float	K
Up from behind as it were a golden boat	K
Freighted with fancies all o' the wonder of life	L
Love such a slender moon going up and up	M
Waxing so fast from night to night	N
And swelling like an orange flower bud bright	N
Fated methought to round as to a golden cup	M
And hold to my two lips life's best of wine	O
Most beautiful crescent moon	P
Ship of the sky	-
Across the unfurrowed reaches sailing high	-
Methought that it would come my way full soon	P
Laden with blessings that were all all mine	O
A golden ship with balm and spiceries rife	L
That ere its day was done should hear thee call me wife	L
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III	-
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All over the celestial sign hath failed	Q
The orange flower bud shuts the ship hath sailed	Q
And sunk behind the long low lying hills	R
The love that fed on daily kisses dieth	H
The love kept warm by nearness lieth	H
Wounded and wan	S
The love hope nourished bitter tears distils	R
And faints with naught to feed upon	S
Only there stirreth very deep below	T
The hidden beating slow	T
And the blind yearning and the long drawn breath	H
Of the love that conquers death	H
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IV	L
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Had we not loved full long and lost all fear	U
My ever my only dear	U
Yes and I saw thee start upon thy way	G
So sure that we should meet	V
Upon our trysting day	G
And even absence then to me was sweet	V
Because it brought me time to brood	W
Upon thy dearness in the solitude	W
But ah to stay and stay	G
And let that moon of April wane itself away	G
And let the lovely May	G
Make ready all her buds for June	P
And let the glossy finch forego her tune	P
That she brought with her in the spring	X
And never more I think to me can sing	X
And then to lead thee home another bride	Y
In the sultry summer tide	Y
And all forget me save for shame full sore	Z
That made thee pray me absent See my face no more	Z
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V	L
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O hard most hard But while my fretted heart	A2
Shut out shut down and full of pain	F
Sobbed to itself apart	A2
Ached to itself in vain	F
One came who loveth me	L
As I love thee	L
And let my God remember him for this	R
As I do hope He will forget thy kiss	R
Nor visit on thy stately head	B2
Aught that thy mouth hath sworn or thy two eyes have said	B2
He came and it was dark He came and sighed	Y
Because he knew the sorrow whispering low	T
And fast and thick as one that speaks by rote	K
The vessel lieth in the river reach	C2
A mile above the beach	C2
And she will sail at the turning o' the tide	Y
He said I have a boat	K
And were it good to go	T
And unbeholden in the vessel's wake	D2
Look on the man thou lovedst and forgive	L
As he embarks a shamefaced fugitive	L
Come then with me	L
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VI	L
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O how he sighed The little stars did wink	E2
And it was very dark I gave my hand	F2
He led me out across the pasture land	F2
And through the narrow croft	G2
Down to the river's brink	E2
When thou wast full in spring thou little sleepy thing	X
The yellow flags that broidered thee would stand	F2
Up to their chins in water and full oft	G2
WE pulled them and the other shining flowers	R
That all are gone to day	G
WE two that had so many things to say	G
So many hopes to render clear	U
And they are all gone after thee my dear	U
Gone after those sweet hours	R
That tender light that balmy rain	F
Gone as a wind that passeth away	G
And cometh not again	H2
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VII	L
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I only saw the stars I could not see	L
The river and they seemed to lie	L
As far below as the other stars were high	L
I trembled like a thing about to die	L
It was so awful 'neath the majesty	L
Of that great crystal height that overhung	I2
The blackness at our feet	V
Unseen to fleet and fleet	V
The flocking stars among	I2
And only hear the dipping of the oar	Z
And the small wave's caressing of the darksome shore	Z
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VIII	L
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Less real it was than any dream	J2
Ah me to hear the bending willows shiver	C
As we shot quickly from the silent river	C
And felt the swaying and the flow	T
That bore us down the deeper wider stream	J2
Whereto its nameless waters go	T
O I shall always when I shut mine eyes	R
See that weird sight again	H2
The lights from anchored vessels hung	I2
The phantom moon that sprung	I2
Suddenly up in dim and angry wise	R
From the rim o' the moaning main	F
And touched with elfin light	N
The two long oars whereby we made our flight	N
Along the reaches of the night	N
Then furrowed up a lowering cloud	K2
Went in and left us darker than before	Z
To feel our way as the midnight watches wore	Z
And lie in HER lee with mournful faces bowed	K2
That should receive and bear with her away	G
The brightest portion of my sunniest day	G
The laughter of the land the sweetness of the shore	Z
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IX	R
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And I beheld thee saw the lantern flash	L2
Down on thy face when thou didst climb the side	Y
And thou wert pale pale as the patient bride	Y
That followed both a little sad	M2
Leaving of home and kin Thy courage glad	M2
That once did bear thee on	S
That brow of thine had lost the fervor rash	L2
Of unforeboding youth thou hadst foregone	N2
O what a little moment what a crumb	O2
Of comfort for a heart to feed upon	S
And that was all its sum	O2
A glimpse and not a meeting	X
A drawing near by night	N
To sigh to thee an unacknowledged greeting	X
And all between the flashing of a light	N
And its retreating	X
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X	R
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Then after ere she spread her wafting wings	R
The ship and weighed her anchor to depart	A2
We stole from her dark lee like guilty things	R
And there was silence in my heart	A2
And silence in the upper and the nether deep	P2
O sleep O sleep	P2
Do not forget me Sometimes come and sweep	P2
Now I have nothing left thy healing hand	F2
Over the lids that crave thy visits bland	F2
Thou kind thou comforting one	Q2
For I have seen his face as I desired	A
And all my story is done	Q2
O I am tired	A