Richard Le Gallienne

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To A Bird At Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EAEAFF GHGIGG JKJKGG LMLMGG CNCNOO GGGGPP QRSRJJ GNGNCD

O bird that somewhere yonder singsA
In the dim hour 'twixt dreams and dawnB
Lone in the hush of sleeping thingsA
In some sky sanctuary withdrawnB
Your perfect song is too like painC
And will not let me sleep againD
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I think you must be more than birdE
A little creature of soft wingsA
Not yours this deep and thrilling wordE
Some morning planet 'tis that singsA
Surely from no small feathered throatF
Wells that august eternal noteF
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As some old language of the deadG
In one resounding syllableH
Says Rome and Greece and all is saidG
A simple word a child may spellI
So in your liquid note impearledG
Sings the long epic of the worldG
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Unfathomed sweetness of your songJ
With ancient anguish at its coreK
What womb of elemental wrongJ
With shudder unimagined boreK
Peace so divine what hell hath trodG
This voice that softly talks with GodG
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All silence in one silver flowerL
Of speech that speaks not save as speaksM
The moon in heaven yet hath powerL
To tell the soul the thing it seeksM
And pack as by some wizard's artG
The whole within the finite partG
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To you sweet bird one well might feignC
With such authority you singN
So clear yet so profound a strainC
Into the simple ear of springN
Some secret understanding givenO
Of the hid purposes of HeavenO
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And all my life until this dayG
And all my life until I dieG
All joy and sorrow of the wayG
Seem calling yonder in the skyG
And there is something the song saithP
That makes me unafraid of deathP
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Now the slow light fills all the treesQ
The world before so still and strangeR
With day's familiar presencesS
Back to its common self must changeR
And little gossip shapes of songJ
The porches of the morning throngJ
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Not yours with such as these to vieG
That of the day's small business singN
Voice of man's heart and of God's skyG
But O you make so deep a thingN
Of joy I dare not think of painC
Until I hear you sing againD

Richard Le Gallienne



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