Poet Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes

Poems Books Biography Comments Images

The Realms Of Gold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDED FGHGIG DCJCDC DKDKDK LMDMNO PQLQLQ DRLRH LSDTLT

Written after hearing a line of Keats repeated by a passing strangerA
under the palms of Southern CaliforniaB
-
-
Under the palms of San DiegoC
Where gold skinned Mexicans loll at easeD
And the red half moons of their black pipped melonsE
Drop from their hands in the sunset seasD
And an incense out of the old brown missionsE
Blows through the orange treesD
-
I wished that a poet who died in EuropeF
Had found his way to this rose red WestG
That Keats had walked by the wide PacificH
And cradled his head on its healing breastG
And made new songs of the sun burned sea folkI
New poems perhaps his bestG
-
I thought of him under the ripe pomegranatesD
At the desert's edge where the grape vines growC
In a sun kissed ranch between grey green sage brushJ
And amethyst mountains peaked with snowC
Or watching the lights of the City of AngelsD
Glitter like stars belowC
-
He should walk at dawn by the lemon orchardsD
And breathe at ease in that dry bright airK
And the Spanish bells in their crumbling cloistersD
Of brown adobe would sing to him thereK
And the old Franciscans would bring him their basketsD
Of apple and olive and pearK
-
And the mandolins in the deep blue twilightL
Under that palm with the lion's maneM
Would pluck once more at his golden heart stringsD
And tell him the old sea tales of SpainM
And there should the daughters of Hesperus teach himN
Their mystical songs againO
-
Then the dusk blew sweet over seas of peach bloomP
The moon sailed white in the cloudless blueQ
The tree toads purred and the crickets chirrupedL
And better than anything dreamed came trueQ
For under the murmuring palms a shadowL
Passed with the eyes I knewQ
-
A shadow perhaps of the tall green fountainsD
That rustled their fronds on that glittering skyR
A hungering shadow a lean dark shadowL
A dreaming shadow that drifted byR
But I heard him whisper the strange dark musicH
That found it so 'rich to die '-
-
And the murmuring palms of San DiegoL
Shook with stars as he passed beneathS
The Paradise palms and the wild white orchardsD
The night and its roses were all one breathT
Bearing the song of a nightingale seawardL
A song that had out soared deathT

Alfred Noyes



Rate:
(1)



Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme

Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Veterans Poem Fishers Of Men Poem>>

Write your comment about The Realms Of Gold poem by Alfred Noyes

 

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 11 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

Popular Poets