Odes From Horace. - [1]to Mëcenas. Book The Second, Ode The Twelfth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HCHC ICIC JKJK LMLM NOPO QKRK STST UJUJ VWVW IXIY ZA2ZA2| M cenas I conjure thee cease | A |
| To wake my harp's enamour'd strings | B |
| To tones that fright recumbent Peace | A |
| That Pleasure flies on rapid wings | B |
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| Slow conquest on Numantia's plain | C |
| Or Hannibal that dauntless stood | D |
| Tho' thrice he saw Ausonia's main | C |
| Redden with Carthaginian blood | E |
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| The Lapith 's remorseless pride | F |
| Hyl us' wild inebriate hours | G |
| The Giants who the Gods defied | F |
| And shook old Saturn's splendid towers | G |
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| These dear M cenas thou should'st paint | H |
| Each glory of thy C sar's reign | C |
| In eloquence that scorns restraint | H |
| And sweeter than the Poet's strain | C |
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| Show captive Kings who from the fight | I |
| Drag at his wheels their galling chain | C |
| And the pale lip indignant bite | I |
| With mutter'd vengeance wild and vain | C |
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| Enraptur'd by Licinia's grace | J |
| My Muse would these high themes decline | K |
| Charm'd that the heart the form the face | J |
| Of matchless Excellence is thine | K |
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| Ah happy Friend for whom an eye | L |
| Of splendid and resistless fire | M |
| Lays all its pointed arrows by | L |
| For the mild gleams of soft desire | M |
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| With what gay spirit does she foil | N |
| The Pedant's meditated hit | O |
| What happy archness in her smile | P |
| What pointed meaning in her wit | O |
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| Her cheek how pure a crimson warms | Q |
| When with the Nymphs in circling line | K |
| Bending she twines her snowy arms | R |
| And dances round Diana's shrine | K |
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| M cenas would'st not thou exchange | S |
| The treasures gorgeous Persia pours | T |
| The wealth of Phrygia's fertile range | S |
| Or warm Arabia's spicy shores | T |
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| For one light ringlet of the hair | U |
| Which shades thy sweet Licinia's face | J |
| In that dear moment when the Fair | U |
| In flying from thy fond embrace | J |
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| Relenting turns her snowy neck | V |
| To meet thy kisses half their way | W |
| Or when her feign'd resentments check | V |
| The ardors thy warm lips convey | W |
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| While in her eyes the languid light | I |
| Betrays a yielding wish to prove | X |
| Amid her coy yet playful flight | I |
| The pleasing force of fervent Love | Y |
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| Or when in gaily frolic guise | Z |
| She snatches her fair self the kiss | A2 |
| E'en at the instant she denies | Z |
| Her Lover the requested bliss | A2 |
Anna Seward
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