Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 1 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Ruggiero to amaze the British host	A
And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks	B
The bridle of his winged courser loosed	C
And clapped his spurs into the creature's flanks	B
High in the air even to the topmost banks	B
Of crudded cloud uprose the flying horse	D
And now above the Welsh and now the Manx	B
And now across the sea he shaped his course	D
Till gleaming far below lay Erin's emerald shores	E
	-
There round Hibernia's fabled realm he coasted	F
Where the old saint had left the holy cave	G
Sought for the famous virtue that it boasted	H
To purge the sinful visitor and save	G
Thence back returning over land and wave	G
Ruggiero came where the blue currents flow	I
The shores of Lesser Brittany to lave	G
And looking down while sailing to and fro	I
He saw Angelica chained to the rock below	I
	-
'Twas on the Island of Complaint well named	J
For there to that inhospitable shore	K
A savage people cruel and untamed	J
Brought the rich prize of many a hateful war	K
To feed a monster that bestead them sore	K
They of fair ladies those that loveliest shone	L
Of tender maidens they the tenderest bore	K
And drowned in tears and making piteous moan	L
Left for that ravening beast chained on the rocks alone	L
	-
Thither transported by enchanter's art	J
Angelica from dreams most innocent	J
As the tale mentioned in another part	J
Awoke the victim for that sad event	J
Beauty so rare nor birth so excellent	J
Nor tears that make sweet Beauty lovelier still	M
Could turn that people from their harsh intent	J
Alas what temper is conceived so ill	M
But Pity moving not Love's soft enthralment will	M
	-
On the cold granite at the ocean's rim	N
These folk had chained her fast and gone their way	O
Fresh in the softness of each delicate limb	N
The pity of their bruising violence lay	O
Over her beauty from the eye of day	O
To hide its pleading charms no veil was thrown	L
Only the fragments of the salt sea spray	O
Rose from the churning of the waves wind blown	L
To dash upon a whiteness creamier than their own	L
	-
Carved out of candid marble without flaw	P
Or alabaster blemishless and rare	Q
Ruggiero might have fancied what he saw	P
For statue like it seemed and fastened there	Q
By craft of cunningest artificer	Q
Save in the wistful eyes Ruggiero thought	J
A teardrop gleamed and with the rippling hair	Q
The ocean breezes played as if they sought	J
In its loose depths to hide that which her hand might not	J
	-
Pity and wonder and awakening love	R
Strove in the bosom of the Moorish Knight	J
Down from his soaring in the skies above	R
He urged the tenor of his courser's flight	J
Fairer with every foot of lessening height	J
Shone the sweet prisoner With tightening reins	S
He drew more nigh and gently as he might	J
O lady worthy only of the chains	S
With which his bounden slaves the God of Love constrains	S
	-
And least for this or any ill designed	J
Oh what unnatural and perverted race	T
Could the sweet flesh with flushing stricture bind	J
And leave to suffer in this cold embrace	T
That the warm arms so hunger to replace	T
Into the damsel's cheeks such color flew	U
As by the alchemy of ancient days	V
If whitest ivory should take the hue	U
Of coral where it blooms deep in the liquid blue	U
	-
Nor yet so tightly drawn the cruel chains	S
Clasped the slim ankles and the wounded hands	W
But with soft cringing attitudes in vain	X
She strove to shield her from that ardent glance	Y
So clinging to the walls of some old manse	Y
The rose vine strives to shield her tender flowers	Y
When the rude wind as autumn weeks advance	Y
Beats on the walls and whirls about the towers	Y
And spills at every blast her pride in piteous showers	Y
	-
And first for choking sobs she might not speak	Z
And then Alas she cried ah woe is me	A2
And more had said in accents faint and weak	Z
Pleading for succor and sweet liberty	A2
But hark across the wide ways of the sea	A2
Rose of a sudden such a fierce affray	Q
That any but the brave had turned to flee	A2
Ruggiero turning looked To his dismay	O
Lo where the monster came to claim his quivering prey	O

Alan Seeger

Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 poem by Alan Seeger

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets