A Suplication For The Joys Of Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKK LLMMNNOOINNNPPQQRRST OOUUVGWWWWNNXYZZNNA2 A2B2B2OOC2C2NNNND2E2 NNF2F2OOG2G2H2H2To the Superior World to Solemn Peace | A |
To Regions where Delights shall never cease | A |
To Living Springs and to Celestial shade | B |
For change of pleasure not Protection made | B |
To Blissfull Harmonys o'erflowing source | C |
Which Strings or stops can neither bind or Force | C |
But wafting Air for ever bears along | D |
Perpetual Motion with perpetual Song | D |
On which the Blest in Symphonies ascend | E |
And towards the Throne with Vocal ardours bend | E |
To Radial light o'erspreading Boundless space | F |
To the safe Goal of our well ended race | F |
To shelter where the weary shall have rest | G |
And where the wicked never shall molest | G |
To that Jerusalem which ours below | H |
Did but in type and faint resemblance shew | I |
To the first born and ransom'd Church above | J |
To Seraphims whose whole composures love | J |
To active Cherubins whom wings surround | K |
Not made to rest tho' on imortal ground | K |
But still suspended wait with flaming joy | L |
In swift commands their vigour to employ | L |
Ambrosial dews distilling from their plumes | M |
Scattering where e'er they pass innate perfumes | M |
To Angells of innumerable sorts | N |
Subordinate in the etherial Courts | N |
To Men refin'd from every gross allay | O |
Who taught the Flesh the Spirit to obey | O |
And keeping late futurity in view | I |
Do now possess what long they did persue | N |
To Jesus founder of the Christian race | N |
And kind dispenser of the Gospell grace | N |
Bring me my God in my accomplish't time | P |
From weakness freed and from degrading crime | P |
Fast by the Tree of life be my retreat | Q |
Whose leaves are Med'cin and whose fruit is meat | Q |
Heal'd by the first and by the last renew'd | R |
With all perfections be my Soul endued | R |
My form that has the earthly figure borne | S |
Take the Celestial in its Glorious turn | T |
My temper frail and subject to dismay | O |
Be stedfast there spiritualiz'd and gay | O |
My low Poetick tendency be rais'd | U |
Till the bestower worthily is prais'd | U |
Till Dryden's numbers for Cecilia's feast | V |
Which sooth depress inflame and shake the breast | G |
Vary the passions with each varying line | W |
Allow'd below all others to outshine | W |
Shall yeild to those above shall yeild to mine | W |
In sound in sense in emphasis Divine | W |
Stupendious are the heights to which they rise | N |
Whose anthems match the musick of the skies | N |
Whilst that which art we call when studied here | X |
Is nature there in its sublimest sphere | Y |
And the pathetick now so hard to find | Z |
Flows from the gratefull transports of the mind | Z |
With Poets who supernal voices raise | N |
And here begin their never ending layes | N |
With those who to the brethren of their Lord | A2 |
In all distress a warm relief afford | A2 |
With the Heroick Spirits of the brave | B2 |
Who durst be true when threatn'd with the Grave | B2 |
And when from evil in triumphant sway | O |
Who e'er departed made himself a prey | O |
To sanguine perils to penurious care | C2 |
To scanty cloathing and precarious fare | C2 |
To lingring solitude exhausting thoughts | N |
Unsuccour'd losses and imputed faults | N |
With these let me be join'd when Heaven reveals | N |
The judgment which admits of no appeals | N |
And having heard from the deciding throne | D2 |
Well have ye suffer'd wisely have ye Done | E2 |
Henceforth the Kingdom of the blest is yours | N |
For you unfolds its everlasting doors | N |
With joyfull Allelujahs let me hail | F2 |
The strength that o'er my weakness cou'd prevail | F2 |
Upheld me here and raised my feeble clay | O |
To this felicity for which I pray | O |
Thro' him whose intercession I implore | G2 |
And Heaven once enter'd prayer shall be no more | G2 |
Loud acclamations shall its place supply | H2 |
And praise the breath of Angells in the sky | H2 |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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