Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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Music. [a Nocturne.] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF EGH IJKLMNOPQRPSNTUVWXYZ A2B2UCN C2D2 E2F2IQG2H2BI2J2K2N TB2ENL2M2N2K2PN2E2PS K2O2

The soul of love is harmony as suchA
All melodies that with wide pinions beatB
Elastic bars which mew it in the fleshC
Till 'twould away to kiss their throats and clingD
Are kindred to the soul and while they swayE
Lords of its action molding all at willF
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Ah neither was I I nor knew the clayE
For all my soul lay on full waves of songG
Reverberating 'twixt the earth and moonH
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O soft complaints that haunted all the heartI
With dreams of love long cherished love dreams foundJ
On sunset mountains gorgeous toward the WestK
Kisses soft kisses bartered 'mid pale budsL
Of bursting Springs and vows of fondest faithM
Kept evermore and eyes whose witcheryN
Might lure old saints down to the lowest hellO
For one swift glance sweet melancholy eyesP
Yet full of hope and dimming o'er with tearsQ
Stooping and gloating in a silver mistR
At Care's thin brow and growing at his eyesP
Voices of expectation rolling onS
To diapason of a mighty choirN
'Mid ever swooning throbbings beating lowT
Wove in hoarse fabric thunders and O soulU
Wafted to caverns lost by hideous seasV
One with the tumult 'neath o'ercircling tiersW
White with strange diamond spars and feathery gemsX
O holy music wailing down long aislesY
To lose thyself 'neath arched welkins dashedZ
With moons of crystal dying dying downA2
To passionate sobs and then a silence vastB2
Vast as thy caves or as the human soulU
Oppressing all this being bulked in fleshC
Until it strained to burst its bounds and soarN
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Harp tones that shaped before the pois d mindC2
The home of Sleep far on a moonlit isleD2
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White Sleep who from heaped myriad poppies weighedE2
With baby slumbers and from violet bedsF2
Culled whiter dreams to fold against her heartI
In dewy clusters sparkling wet with tearsQ
And on her shadowy pinions soaring highG2
Winged 'neath the vault into oblivionH2
With all the echoes panting at pale feetB
To kiss the dreams and o'er deep wine dark wavesI2
Far far away lost and a sound of starsJ2
Streaming from burning sockets into nightK2
About my soul about my soul like fireN
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Oh then what agony and bitter woeT
Regret and noise of desolation vastB2
As when all that one loves is torn awayE
Forever with farewell forevermoreN
Oh strife and panic and the rush of windsL2
Moist ashen brows with raven tresses tornM2
That plunged against the bursting bolts of GodN2
That ploughed the tempest curst with deepest nightK2
Ruin and heartache moans and demon eyesP
Fierce bestial eyes that cursed at very GodN2
Then blinding tears that wept for such and prayedE2
Tears blistering all the soul in haunting eyesP
Eyes such as Death would fear to ponder onS
Then dolorous bell beats battle as for lightK2
Folds of oblivion gaspings silence deathO2

Madison Julius Cawein



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