Uriel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDBDB EFFEEGEGE HIIHHJHJH J AKKAHLALA A MNNMMBMBM J HOPHHMHMH J BAABBBBBB J QNNRQBQBQ N STTSSUSUS N NVVNNNNNN N WXXWWBWBW N MCCMMKMKM N NNNNNNNNN J NXXNNBNBN J NNNNNHNHN J HNNHHSHSH J NHHNNYNYN J NZZNNHNHN

In memory of William Vaughn MoodyA
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Uriel you that in the ageless sunB
Sit in the awful silences of lightC
Singing of vision hid from human sightC
Prometheus beautiful rebellious oneB
And you DeucalionB
For whose blind seed was brought the illuming sparkD
Are you not gathered now his day is doneB
Beside the brink of that relentless darkD
The dark where your dear singer's ghost is goneB
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Imagined beings who majestic blendE
Your forms with beauty questing unconfinedF
The mind conceived you though the quench egrave d mindF
Goes down in dark where you in dawn ascendE
Our songs can but suspendE
The ultimate silence yet could song aspireG
The realms of mortal music to extendE
And wake a Sibyl's voice or Seraph's lyreG
How should it tell the dearness of a friendE
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The simplest is the inexpressibleH
The heart of music still evades the MuseI
And arts of men the heart of man suffuseI
And saddest things are made of silence stillH
In vain the senses thrillH
To give our sorrows glorious reliefJ
In pyre of verse and pageants volatileH
And I in vain to speak for him my griefJ
Whose spirit of fire invokes my waiting willH
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IVJ
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To him the best of friendship needs must beA
Uttered no more yet was he so endowedK
That Poetry because of him is proudK
And he more noble for his poetryA
Wherefore infalliblyH
I obey the strong compulsion which this verseL
Lays on my lips with strange austerityA
Now that his voice is silent to rehearseL
For my own heart how he was dear to meA
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Not by your gradual sands elusive TimeM
We measure your gray sea that never restsN
The bleeding hour glasses in our breastsN
Mete with quick pangs the ebbing of our primeM
And drip like sudden rimeM
In March that melts to runnels from a paneB
The south breathes on oblivion of sublimeM
Crystallizations and the ruthless waneB
Of glittering stars that scarce had range to climbM
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VIJ
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Darkling those constellations of his soulH
Glimmered while racks of stellar lightning shotO
The white creative meteors of thoughtP
Through that last night where clad in cloudy stoleH
Beside his ebbing shoalH
Of life blood stood Saint Paul blazing a themeM
Of living drama from a fiery scrollH
Across his stretch egrave d vision as in dreamM
When Death with blind dark blotted out the wholeH
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And yet not all though darkly alienB
Those uncompleted worlds of work to beA
Are waned still touched by them the memoryA
Gives afterglow and now that comes againB
The mellow season whenB
Our eyes last met his kindling currents runB
Quickening within me gladness and new kenB
Of life that I have shared his prime with oneB
Who wrought large minded for the love of menB
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VIIIJ
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But not alone to share that large estateQ
Of work and interchange of communingsN
The little human paths to heavenly thingsN
Were also ours the casual intimateR
Vistas which consecrateQ
With laughter and quick tears the dusty noonB
Of days and by moist beams irradiateQ
Our plodding minds with courage and attuneB
The fellowship that bites its thumb at fateQ
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Where art thou now mine host Guffanti whereS
The iridescence of thy motley troopT
Ah where the merry animated groupT
That snuggled elbows for an extra chairS
When space was none to spareS
To pour the votive Chianti for a toastU
To dramas dark and lyrics debonairS
The while to 'Bella Napoli' mine hostU
Exhaled his Parmazan Parnassan airS
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XN
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Thy Parmazan immortal laird of easeN
Can never mold thy caviare is blestV
While still our glowing Uriel greets the restV
Around thy royal board of memoriesN
Where sit the salt of theseN
He of the laughter of a Hundred LightsN
Blithe Eldorado of high poesiesN
And he of enigmatic gentle knightsN
The kindly keen who sings of 'Calverly's'N
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Because he never wore his sentient heartW
For crows and jays to peck ofttimes to suchX
He seemed a silent fellow who o'ermuchX
Held from the general gossip ground apartW
Or tersely spoke and tartW
How should they guess what eagle tore withinB
His quick of sympathy for humblest smartW
Of human wretchedness or probed his spleenB
Of scorn against the hypocritic martW
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Sometimes insufferable seemed to comeM
That wrath of sympathy One windy nightC
We watched through squalid panes forlornly whiteC
Amid immense machines' incessant humM
Frail figures gaunt and dumbM
Of overlabored girls and children bowedK
Above their slavish toil O God A bombM
A bomb he cried and with one fiery cloudK
Expunge the horrible C sars of this slumM
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Another night dreams on the Cornish hillsN
Trembling within the low moon's pallid firesN
The tall corn tassels lift their fragrant spiresN
From filmy spheres a liquid starlight fillsN
Like dew of daffodilsN
The fragile dark where multitudinousN
The rhythmic intermittent silence thrillsN
Like song the valleys Hark he murmurs ThusN
May bards from crickets learn their canticlesN
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XIVJ
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Now Morning not less lavish of her sweetsN
Leads us along the woodpaths in whose hushX
The quivering alchemy of the pure thrushX
Cools from above the balsam dripping heatsN
To find in green retreatsN
'Mid men of clay the great quick hearted manB
Whose subtle art our human age secretesN
Or him whose brush tinct with ceruleanB
Blooms with soft castle towers and cloud capped fleetsN
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Still to the sorcery of August skiesN
In frill egrave d crimson flaunt the hollyhocksN
Where lithely poised along the garden walksN
His little maid enamoured blithe outviesN
The dipping butterfliesN
In motion ah in grace how grown the whileH
Since he was wont to render to her eyesN
His knightly court or touch with flitting smileH
Her father's heart by his true flatteriesN
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But summer's golden pastures boast no trailH
So splendid as our fretted snowshoes blazeN
Where sharp across the amethystine waysN
Iron Ascutney looms in azure mailH
And like a frozen grailH
The frore sun sets intolerably fairS
Mute in our homebound snow tracks we exhaleH
The silvery cold and soon where bright logs flareS
Talk the long indoor hours till embers failH
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Ah with the smoke what smouldering desiresN
Waft to the starlight up the swirling flueH
Thoughts that may never as the swallows doH
Nest circling homeward to their native firesN
Ardors the soul suspiresN
The extinct stars drink with the dreamer's breathY
The morning song of Eden's early choirsN
Grows dim with Adam close at the ear of deathY
Relentless angels tune our earthly lyresN
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Let it be so More sweet it is to beN
A listener of love's ephemeral songZ
And live with beauty though it be not longZ
And die enamoured of eternityN
Though in the apogeeN
Of time there sit no individualH
Godhead of life than to reject the pleaN
Of passionate beauty loveliness is allH
And love is more divine than memoryN

Percy Mackaye



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