I wakened on my hot, hard bed;
Upon the pillow lay my head;
Beneath the pillow I could hear
My little watch was ticking clear.
I thought the throbbing of it went
Like my continual discontent;
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick:
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick...
The Watch
Barry Cornwall
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Poem topics: death, head, clear, hear, hard, beneath, watch, pillow, thought, sick, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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Diya.L: The poem is really beautiful. It describes the bad habit of not waking up early. But I don't like the last two { 2 } lines. While the poem is beautiful , the last two { 2 } lines describe about death ruining the whole poem. So, I give the poem four { 4 } stars for a total of five { 5 } .
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