Second Song: The Girl From Baltistan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDBEAFE GGGGGGHH AIJIKKKJALL MMGNGGOP PGPMOMG QRQR STST KKUUTTVVK

Throb throb throbA
Far away in the blue transparent NightB
On the outer horizon of a dreaming consciousnessC
She hears the sound of her lover's nearing boatD
Afar afloatD
On the river's loneliness where the Stars are the only lightB
Hear the sound of the straining woodE
Like a broken sobA
Of a heart's distressF
Loving misunderstoodE
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She lies with her loose hair spent in soft disorderG
On a silken sheet with a purple woven borderG
Every cell of her brain is latent fireG
Every fibre tense with restrained desireG
And the straining oars sound clearer clearerG
The boat is approaching nearer nearerG
How to wait through the moments' spaceH
Till I see the light of my lover's faceH
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Throb throb throbA
The sound dies down the streamI
Till it only clings at the senses' edgeJ
Like a half remembered dreamI
Doubtless he in the silence liesK
His fair face turned to the tender skiesK
Starlight touching his sleeping eyesK
While his boat caught in the thickset sedgeJ
And the waters round it gurgle and sobA
Or floats set free on the river's tideL
Oars laid asideL
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She is awake and knows no restM
Passion dies and is dispossessedM
Of his brief despotic powerG
But the Brain once kindled would still be afireN
Were the whole world pasture to its desireG
And all of love in a single hourG
A single wine cup filled to the brimO
Given to slake its thirstP
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Some there are who are thus wise cursedP
Times that follow fulfilled desireG
Are of all their hours the worstP
They find no Respite and reach no RestM
Though passion fail and desire grow dimO
No assuagement comes from the thing possessedM
For possession feeds the fireG
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Oh for the life of the bright hued thingsQ
Whose marriage and death are oneR
A floating fusion on golden wingsQ
Alit with passion and sunR
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But we who re marry a thousand timesS
As the spirit or senses willT
In a thousand ways in a thousand climesS
We remain unsatisfied stillT
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As her lover left her alone awake she liesK
With a sleepless brain and weary half closed eyesK
She turns her face where the purple silk is spreadU
Still sweet with delicate perfume his presence shedU
Her arms remembered his vanished beauty stillT
And reminiscent of clustered curls her fingers thrillT
While the wonderful Starlit Night wears slowly onV
Till the light of another day serene and wanV
Pierces the eastern skiesK

Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)



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