In Memory Of Douglas Vernon Cow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFGHFEHIHFIJK JLLMKM L NOPGOQGPRSRTUFVFWJW JXJXFFYEZEYE GZEA2JA2J B2PQC2PD2POPO| THIS POEM DEDICATED TO HIS MOTHER | A |
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| To twilight heads comes Death as comes a friend | B |
| As with the gentle fading of the year | C |
| Fades rose folds leaf falls fruit and to their end | B |
| Unquestioning draw near | C |
| Their flowering over and their fruiting done | D |
| Fulfilled and finished and going down with the sun | D |
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| But for June's heart there is no comforting | E |
| When her full throated rose | F |
| Still quick with buds still thrilling to the air | G |
| By some stray wind is tossed | H |
| her swelling grain that goes | F |
| Heavy to harvesting | E |
| In a black gale is lost | H |
| And her round grape that purpled to the wine | I |
| Is pinched by some chance frost | H |
| Ah then cry out for that last lovely rose | F |
| For the stricken wheat and for the finished vine | I |
| Such were you who sleep now who have foregone | J |
| So many of Life's rich secrets almost learned | K |
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| Winning so much so much yet unwon | J |
| Yet to be dared to discover to reveal | L |
| Quick still with ardour hand still at the wheel | L |
| On wide and unsailed seas eyes turning still | M |
| Towards the morning while the keen brain burned | K |
| To the imperative will | M |
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| Upon your summer Death seems to set his heel | L |
| Writes on the page 'No more ' | - |
| And brings the sign of sunset shuts the door | N |
| And the house is dark and the tired mourners sleep | O |
| Yet says he too 'Though quiet at last you lie | P |
| 'And have done with laughter and strife and joy and care | G |
| 'You have honour with your peace and still you keep | O |
| 'Fullness of life and of felicity | Q |
| 'You have seen the grail What need you of grey hair | G |
| 'There are those who daily die | P |
| 'Who have long out lived their welcome in the world | R |
| 'Who are old and sad and tired and fain to cease | S |
| 'From the crowded earth and the hours in tumult whirled | R |
| 'Urgent and vain You are not such as these | T |
| 'Who have striven for laurels and never knew the shade | U |
| 'Upon their brows who would persuade the rose | F |
| 'And never have come near it till the head | V |
| 'Bows and the heart breaks and the spirit knows | F |
| 'Only its failure dim and featureless | W |
| 'Its weariness of all things dreamed and done | J |
| 'When love and grief alike seem emptiness | W |
| 'And fame and unrecognition one ' | - |
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| The full tide took you you went out with the sun | J |
| Not in the cringing ebb not in the grey | X |
| And tremulous twilight when each lonely one | J |
| To its last loneliness must creep away | X |
| Your genius has won its rich repose | F |
| Full laurelled wearing still the unfaded rose | F |
| And as those who bid goodbye at snowdrop time | Y |
| Bear with them broken promises of Spring | E |
| So you in triumph in the glory men had in you | Z |
| In Love's full worshipping | E |
| High summer thoughts untouched of Winter's rime | Y |
| Went forth with honour having fulfilled your Spring | E |
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| The hands that built you felt you flower from her prayer | G |
| True to her vision true | Z |
| Fearless and fine shaped from her fashioning | E |
| Hands empty now and yet not all unfilled | A2 |
| Having built and fired the generous heart and brain | J |
| Of the man you were whose fervent spirit willed | A2 |
| You to the service and healing and help of men | J |
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| These things are hers not to be lost nor changed | B2 |
| With changes of death for though the body die | P |
| The golden deed is stamped eternally | Q |
| With the head of God The new and alien years | C2 |
| Leave it still bright unaltered unestranged | P |
| Almost too proud and too profound for tears | D2 |
| Is the high memory that the desolate heart | P |
| Shrines and is dumb yet may for ever keep | O |
| Unforbidden the imperishable part | P |
| And what Love held awake he holds asleep | O |
Muriel Stuart
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