Fragment Iii - Years After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDEFGFE HIJGIHKG LLCC DMNMNDOO NPPNQQ RSRS NDDGTNGU CCNNGVVGV VWQWPPQ QQVVXQGQQQXG YZA2GZQIIA2YB2GQC2 DQDQPP GD2GD2QE2QD2E2 F2G2QF2QH2NDDQF2NQDQ NQF2Fade off the ridges rosy light | A |
Fade slowly from the last gray height | A |
And leave no gloomy cloud to grieve | B |
The heart of this enchanted eve | B |
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All things beneath the still sky seem | C |
Bound by the spell of a sweet dream | C |
In the dusk forest dreamingly | D |
Droops slowly down each plum d head | E |
The river flowing softly by | F |
Dreams of the sea the quiet sea | G |
Dreams of the unseen stars and I | F |
Am dreaming of the dreamless dead | E |
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The river has a silken sheen | H |
But red rays of the sunset stain | I |
Its pictures from the steep shore caught | J |
Till shades of rock and fern and tree | G |
Glow like the figures on a pane | I |
Of some old church by twilight seen | H |
Or like the rich devices wrought | K |
In mediaeval tapestry | G |
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All lonely in a drifting boat | L |
Through shine and shade I float and float | L |
Dreaming and dreaming till I seem | C |
Part of the picture and the dream | C |
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There is no sound to break the spell | D |
No voice of bird or stir of bough | M |
Only the lisp of waters wreathing | N |
In little ripples round the prow | M |
And a low air like Silence breathing | N |
That hardly dusks the sleepy swell | D |
Whereon I float to that strange deep | O |
That sighs upon the shores of Sleep | O |
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But in the silent heaven blooming | N |
Behold the wondrous sunset flower | P |
That blooms and fades within the hour | P |
The flower of fantasy perfuming | N |
With subtle melody of scent | Q |
The blue aisles of the firmament | Q |
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For colour music scent are one | R |
From deeps of air to airless heights | S |
Lo how he sweeps the splendid sun | R |
His burning lyre of many lights | S |
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See the clear golden lily blowing | N |
It shines as shone thy gentle soul | D |
O my most sweet when from the goal | D |
Of life far gazing thou didst see | G |
While Death still feared to touch thine eyes | T |
Where such immortal light was glowing | N |
The vision of eternity | G |
The pearly gates of Paradise | U |
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Now richer hues the skies illume | C |
The pale gold blushes into bloom | C |
Delicate as the flowering | N |
Of first love in the tender spring | N |
Of Life when love is wizardry | G |
That over narrow days can throw | V |
A glamour and a glory so | V |
Did thine my Beautiful for me | G |
So long ago so long ago | V |
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So long ago so long ago | V |
Ah who can Love and Grief estrange | W |
Or Memory and Sorrow part | Q |
Lo in the West another change | W |
A deeper glow a rose of fire | P |
A rose of passionate desire | P |
Lone burning in a lonely heart | Q |
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A lonely heart a lonely flood | Q |
The wave that glassed her gleaming head | Q |
And smiling passed it does not know | V |
That gleaming head lies dark and low | V |
The myrtle tree that bends above | X |
I pray that it may early bud | Q |
For under its green boughs sat we | G |
We twain we only hand in hand | Q |
When Love was lord of all the land | Q |
It does not know that she is dead | Q |
And all is over now with Love | X |
Is over now with Love and me | G |
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Once more once more O shining years | Y |
Gone by once more O vanished days | Z |
Whose hours flew by on iris wings | A2 |
Come back and bring my love to me | G |
My voice faints down the wooded ways | Z |
And dies along the darkling flood | Q |
The past is past I cry in vain | I |
For when did Death an answer deign | I |
To Love's heart broken questionings | A2 |
The dead are deaf dust chokes their ears | Y |
Only the rolling river hears | B2 |
Far off the calling of the sea | G |
A shiver strikes through all my blood | Q |
Mine eyes are full of sudden tears | C2 |
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The shadows gather over all | D |
The valley and the mountains old | Q |
Shadow on shadow fast they fall | D |
On glooming green and waning gold | Q |
And on my heart they gather drear | P |
Damp as with grave damps dark with fear | P |
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O Sorrow Sorrow couldst thou leave me | G |
Not one brief hour to dream alone | D2 |
Hast thou not all my days to grieve me | G |
My nights are they not all thine own | D2 |
Thou hauntest me at morning light | Q |
Thou blackenest the white moonbeams | E2 |
A hollow voice at noon at night | Q |
A crowned ghost sitting on a throne | D2 |
Ruling the kingdom of my dreams | E2 |
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Maker of men Thou gavest breath | F2 |
Thou gavest love to all that live | G2 |
Thou rendest loves and lives apart | Q |
Allwise art Thou who questioneth | F2 |
Thy will or who can read Thy heart | Q |
But couldst Thou not in mercy give | H2 |
A sign to us one little spark | N |
Of sure hope that the end of all | D |
Is not concealed beneath the pall | D |
Or wound up with the winding sheet | Q |
Who heedeth aught the preacher saith | F2 |
When eyes wax dim and limbs grow stark | N |
And fear sits on the darkened bed | Q |
The dying man turns to the wall | D |
What hope have we above our dead | Q |
Tense fingers clutching at the dark | N |
And hopeless hands that vainly beat | Q |
Against the iron doors of Death | F2 |
Victor James Daley
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