Odes From Horace. - To Licinius Murena[1]. Book The Second, Ode The Tenth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFGFHIJK IIIILLMM NOPOQQII| Not always dear Licinius is it wise | A |
| On the main Sea to ply the daring Oar | B |
| Nor is it safe from dread of angry Skies | A |
| Closely to press on the insidious Shore | B |
| To no excess discerning Spirits lean | C |
| They feel the blessings of the golden mean | C |
| They will not grovel in the squalid cell | D |
| Nor seek in princely domes with envied pomp to dwell | D |
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| The pine that lifts so high her stately boughs | E |
| Writhes in the storms and bends beneath their might | F |
| Innoxious while the loudest tempest blows | G |
| O'er trees that boast a less aspiring height | F |
| As the wild fury of the whirlwind pours | H |
| With direst ruin fall the loftiest towers | I |
| And 't is the mountain's summit that oblique | J |
| From the dense lurid clouds the baleful lightnings strike | K |
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| A mind well disciplin'd when Sorrow lours | I |
| Not sullenly excludes Hope's smiling rays | I |
| Nor when soft Pleasure boasts of lasting powers | I |
| With boundless trust the Promiser surveys | I |
| It is the same dread Jove who thro' the sky | L |
| Hurls the loud storms that darken as they fly | L |
| And whose benignant hand withdraws the gloom | M |
| And spreads rekindling light in all its living bloom | M |
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| To day the Soul perceives a weight of woe | N |
| A brighter Morrow shall gay thoughts inspire | O |
| Does Phoebus always bend the vengeful bow | P |
| Wakes he not often the harmonious lyre | O |
| Be thou when Danger scowls in every wave | Q |
| Watchful collected spirited and brave | Q |
| But in the sunny sky the flattering gales | I |
| Contract with steady hand thy too expanded sails | I |
Anna Seward
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