Second Song: The Girl From Baltistan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDBEAFE GGGGGGHH AIJIKKKJALL MMGNGGOP PGPMOMG QRQR STST KKUUTTVVKThrob throb throb | A |
Far away in the blue transparent Night | B |
On the outer horizon of a dreaming consciousness | C |
She hears the sound of her lover's nearing boat | D |
Afar afloat | D |
On the river's loneliness where the Stars are the only light | B |
Hear the sound of the straining wood | E |
Like a broken sob | A |
Of a heart's distress | F |
Loving misunderstood | E |
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She lies with her loose hair spent in soft disorder | G |
On a silken sheet with a purple woven border | G |
Every cell of her brain is latent fire | G |
Every fibre tense with restrained desire | G |
And the straining oars sound clearer clearer | G |
The boat is approaching nearer nearer | G |
How to wait through the moments' space | H |
Till I see the light of my lover's face | H |
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Throb throb throb | A |
The sound dies down the stream | I |
Till it only clings at the senses' edge | J |
Like a half remembered dream | I |
Doubtless he in the silence lies | K |
His fair face turned to the tender skies | K |
Starlight touching his sleeping eyes | K |
While his boat caught in the thickset sedge | J |
And the waters round it gurgle and sob | A |
Or floats set free on the river's tide | L |
Oars laid aside | L |
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She is awake and knows no rest | M |
Passion dies and is dispossessed | M |
Of his brief despotic power | G |
But the Brain once kindled would still be afire | N |
Were the whole world pasture to its desire | G |
And all of love in a single hour | G |
A single wine cup filled to the brim | O |
Given to slake its thirst | P |
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Some there are who are thus wise cursed | P |
Times that follow fulfilled desire | G |
Are of all their hours the worst | P |
They find no Respite and reach no Rest | M |
Though passion fail and desire grow dim | O |
No assuagement comes from the thing possessed | M |
For possession feeds the fire | G |
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Oh for the life of the bright hued things | Q |
Whose marriage and death are one | R |
A floating fusion on golden wings | Q |
Alit with passion and sun | R |
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But we who re marry a thousand times | S |
As the spirit or senses will | T |
In a thousand ways in a thousand climes | S |
We remain unsatisfied still | T |
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As her lover left her alone awake she lies | K |
With a sleepless brain and weary half closed eyes | K |
She turns her face where the purple silk is spread | U |
Still sweet with delicate perfume his presence shed | U |
Her arms remembered his vanished beauty still | T |
And reminiscent of clustered curls her fingers thrill | T |
While the wonderful Starlit Night wears slowly on | V |
Till the light of another day serene and wan | V |
Pierces the eastern skies | K |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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