Autumn - The Third Pastoral, Or Hylas And Ægon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGHHHIIJJKKHH LLMMNNDDOBKKPPHHLLMM OBQQPPKKHHRRKKSSQQHH TTUUKKHHKKQQVVCBKKWW XXOBHH OBYYLLKKHHIIZZBeneath the shade a spreading Beech displays | A |
Hylas and Aegon sung their rural lays | A |
This mourn'd a faithless that an absent Love | B |
And Delia's name and Doris' fill'd the Grove | C |
Ye Mantuan nymphs your sacred succour bring | D |
Hylas and gon's rural lays I sing | D |
Thou whom the Nine with Plautus' wit inspire | E |
The art of Terence and Menander's fire | F |
Whose sense instructs us and whose humour charms | G |
Whose judgement sways us and whose spirit warms | H |
Oh skill'd in Nature see the hearts of Swains | H |
Their artless passions and their tender pains | H |
Now setting Phoebus shone serenely bright | I |
And fleecy clouds were streak'd with purple light | I |
When tuneful Hylas with melodious moan | J |
Taught rocks to weep and made the mountains groan | J |
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs away | K |
To Delia's ear the tender notes convey | K |
As some sad Turtle his lost love deplores | H |
And with deep murmurs fills the sounding shores | H |
Thus far from Delia to the winds I mourn | L |
Alike unheard unpity'd and forlorn | L |
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs along | M |
For her the feather'd quires neglect their song | M |
For her the limes their pleasing shades deny | N |
For her the lilies hang their heads and die | N |
Ye flow'rs that droop forsaken by the spring | D |
Ye birds that left by summer cease to sing | D |
Ye trees that fade when autumn heats remove | O |
Say is not absence death to those who love | B |
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs away | K |
Curs'd be the fields that cause my Delia's stay | K |
Fade ev'ry blossom wither ev'ry tree | P |
Die ev'ry flow'r and perish all but she | P |
What have I said where'er my Delia flies | H |
Let spring attend and sudden flow'rs arise | H |
Let op'ning roses knotted oaks adorn | L |
And liquid amber drop from ev'ry thorn | L |
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs along | M |
The birds shall cease to tune their ev'ning song | M |
The winds to breathe the waving woods to move | O |
And streams to murmur e'er I cease to love | B |
Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain | Q |
Not balmy sleep to lab'rers faint with pain | Q |
Not show'rs to larks nor sun shine to the bee | P |
Are half so charming as thy sight to me | P |
Go gentle gales and bear my sighs away | K |
Come Delia come ah why this long delay | K |
Thro' rocks and caves the name of Delia sounds | H |
Delia each cave and echoing rock rebounds | H |
Ye pow'rs what pleasing frenzy sooths my mind | R |
Do lovers dream or is my Delia kind | R |
She comes my Delia comes Now cease my lay | K |
And cease ye gales to bear my sighs away | K |
Next gon sung while Windsor groves admir'd | S |
Rehearse ye Muses what yourselves inspir'd | S |
Resound ye hills resound my mournful strain | Q |
Of perjur'd Doris dying I complain | Q |
Here where the mountains less'ning as they rise | H |
Lose the low vales and steal into the skies | H |
While lab'ring oxen spent with toil and heat | T |
In their loose traces from the field retreat | T |
While curling smokes from village tops are seen | U |
And the fleet shades glide o'er the dusky green | U |
Resound ye hills resound my mournful lay | K |
Beneath yon' poplar oft we past the day | K |
Oft' on the rind I carv'd her am'rous vows | H |
While she with garlands hung the bending boughs | H |
The garlands fade the vows are worn away | K |
So dies her love and so my hopes decay | K |
Resound ye hills resound my mournful strain | Q |
Now bright Arcturus glads the teeming grain | Q |
Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine | V |
And grateful clusters swell with floods of wine | V |
Now blushing berries paint the yellow grove | C |
Just Gods shall all things yield returns but love | B |
Resound ye hills resound my mournful lay | K |
The shepherds cry Thy flocks are left a prey | K |
Ah what avails it me the flocks to keep | W |
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep | W |
Pan came and ask'd what magic caus'd my smart | X |
Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart | X |
What eyes but hers alas have pow'r to move | O |
And is here magic but what dwells in love | B |
Resound ye hills resound my mournful strains | H |
I'll fly from shepherds flocks and flow'ry plains | H |
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From shepherds flocks and plains I may remove | O |
Forsake mankind and all the world but love | B |
I know thee Love on foreign Mountains bred | Y |
Wolves gave thee suck and savage Tigers fed | Y |
Thou wert from tna's burning entrails torn | L |
Got by fierce whirlwinds and in thunder born | L |
Resound ye hills resound my mournful lay | K |
Farewell ye woods adieu the light of day | K |
One leap from yonder cliff shall end my pains | H |
No more ye hills no more resound my strains | H |
Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night | I |
The skies yet blushing with departing light | I |
When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade | Z |
And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade | Z |
Alexander Pope
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