Poet Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough

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Thoughts Of Home.1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF FFGGHH IJKKLL MMFFAA

I watched them from the window thy children at their playA
And I thought of all my own dear friends who were far oh far awayA
And childish loves and childish cares and a child's own buoyant gladnessB
Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadnessB
And feelings frozen up full long and thoughts of long agoC
Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flowC
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I looked upon thy children and I thought of all and eachD
Of my brother and my sister and our rambles on the beachD
Of my mother's gentle voice and my mother's beckoning handE
And all the tales she used to tell of the far far English landE
And the happy happy evening hours when I sat on my father's kneeF
Oh many a wave is rolling now betwixt that seat and meF
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And many a day has passed away since I left them o'er the seaF
And I have lived a life since then of boyhood's thoughtless gleeF
Yet of the blessed times gone by not seldom would I dreamG
And childhood's joy like faint far stars in memory's heaven would gleamG
And o'er the sea to those I loved my thoughts would often roamH
But never knew I until now the blessings of a homeH
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I used to think when I was there that my own true home was hereI
But home is not in land or sky but in those whom each holds dearJ
The evening's cooling breeze is fanning my temples nowK
But then my frame was languid and heated was my browK
And I longed for England's cool and for England's breezes thenL
But now I would give full many a breeze to be back in the heat againL
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But when cold strange looks without and proud high thoughts withinM
Are weaving round my heart the woof of selfishness and sinM
When self begins to roll a far a worse and wider seaF
Of careless and unloving thoughts between those friends and meF
I will think upon these moments and call to mind the dayA
When I watched them from the window thy children at their playA

Arthur Hugh Clough



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