Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJKLLMM NNBBOPQQ| O happy they whose hearts receive | A |
| The implanted word with faith believe | A |
| Because their fathers did before | B |
| Because they learnt and ask no more | B |
| High triumphs of convictions wrought | C |
| And won by individual thought | C |
| The joy delusive oft but keen | D |
| Of having with our own eyes seen | D |
| What if they have not felt nor known | E |
| An amplitude instead they own | E |
| By no self binding ordinance prest | F |
| To toil in labour they detest | F |
| By no deceiving reasoning tied | G |
| Or this or that way to decide | G |
| - | |
| O happy they above their head | H |
| The glory of the unseen is spread | H |
| Their happy heart is free to range | I |
| Thro' largest tracts of pleasant change | I |
| Their intellects encradled lie | J |
| In boundless possibility | K |
| For impulses of varying kinds | L |
| The Ancient Home a lodging finds | L |
| Each appetite our nature breeds | M |
| It meets with viands for its needs | M |
| - | |
| O happy they nor need they fear | N |
| The wordy strife that rages near | N |
| All reason wastes by day and more | B |
| Will instinct in a night restore | B |
| O happy so their state but give | O |
| A clue by which a man can live | P |
| O blest unless 'tis proved by fact | Q |
| A dream impossible to act | Q |
Arthur Hugh Clough
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< The Bothie Of Tober-na-vuolich - Ix Poem
'blank Misgivings Of A Creature Moving About In Worlds Not Realised.' Poem>>
About Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen!
Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen! is a poem by Arthur Hugh Clough. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen! poem by Arthur Hugh Clough
Best Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough