The Sense Of Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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SPIRIT who over this our mortal EarthA
Where nought hath birthA
Which imperfection doth not some way dimB
Since Earth offended HIMB
Thou who unseen from out thy radiant wingsC
Dost shower down light o'er mean and common thingsC
And wandering to and froD
Through the condemn'd and sinful world dost goD
Haunting that wilderness the human heartE
With gleams of glory that too soon departE
Gilding both weed and flowerF
What is thy birth divine and whence thy mighty powerF
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The Sculptor owns thee On his high pale browG
Bewild'ring images are pressing nowG
Groups whose immortal graceH
His chisel ne'er shall traceH
Though in his mind the fresh creation glowsI
High forms of godlike strengthJ
Or limbs whose languid lengthJ
The marble fixes in a sweet reposeI
At thy commandK
His true and patient handK
Moulds the dull clay to Beauty's richest lineL
Or with more tedious skillM
Obedient to thy willM
By touches imperceptible and fineL
Works slowly day by dayN
The rough hewn block awayN
Till the soft shadow of the bust's pale smileO
Wakes into statue life and pays the assiduous toilP
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Thee the young Painter knows whose fervent eyesQ
O'er the blank waste of canvas fondly bendingR
See fast within its magic circle riseQ
Some pictured scene with colours softly blendingR
Green bowers and leafy gladesS
The old Arcadian shadesS
Where thwarting glimpses of the sun are thrownT
And dancing nymphs and shepherds one by oneU
Appear to bless his sightV
In Fancy's glowing lightV
Peopling that spot of green Earth's flowery breastW
With every attitude of joy and restW
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Lo at his pencil's touch steals faintly forthX
Like an uprising star in the cold northX
Some face which soon shall glow with beauty's fireF
Dim seems the sketch to those who stand aroundY
Dim and uncertain as an echoed soundY
But oh how bright to him whose hand thou dost inspireZ
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Thee also doth the dreaming Poet hailA2
Fond comforter of many a dreary dayN
When through the clouds his Fancy's car can sailA2
To worlds of radiance far how far awayN
At thy clear touch as at the burst of lightV
Which Morning shoots along the purple hillsB2
Chasing the shadows of the vanish'd nightV
And silvering all the darkly gushing rillsB2
Giving each waking blossom gemm'd with dewC2
Its bright and proper hueC2
He suddenly beholds the chequered faceB2
Of this old world in its young Eden graceB2
Disease and want and sin and pain are notD2
Nor homely and familiar things man's lotD2
Is like his aspirations bright and highE2
And even the haunting thought that man must dieE2
His dream so changes from its fearful strifeF2
Death seems but fainting into purer lifeF2
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Nor only these thy presence wooC2
The less inspired own thee tooC2
Thou hast thy tranquil sourceB2
In the deep well springs of the human heartE
And gushest with sweet forceB2
When most imprison'd causing tears to startE
In the worn citizen's o'erwearied eyeE2
As with a sighE2
At the bright close of some rare holidayN
He sees the branches wave the waters playN
And hears the clock's far distant mellow chimeG2
Warn him a busier world reclaims his timeG2
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Thee Childhood's heart confesses when he seesB2
The heavy rose bud crimson in the breezeB2
When the red coral wins his eager gazeB2
Or the warm sunbeam dazzles with its raysB2
Thee through his varied hours of rapid joyH2
The eager BoyH2
Who wild across the grassy meadow springsB2
And still with sparkling eyesB2
Pursues the uncertain prizeB2
Lured by the velvet glory of its wingsB2
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And so from youth to age yea till the endI2
An unforsaking unforgetting friendI2
Thou hoverest round us And when all is o'erF
And Earth's most loved illusions please no moreJ2
Thou stealest gently to the couch of DeathK2
There while the lagging breathK2
Comes faint and fitfully to usher nighE2
Consoling visions from thy native skyE2
Making it sweet to dieE2
The sick man's ears are faint his eyes are dimB
But his heart listens to the Heavenward hymnB
And his soul sees in lieu of that sad bandK
Who come with mournful treadL2
To kneel about his bedL2
God's white robed angels who around him standK
And waive his Spirit to 'the Better Land '-
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So living dying still our hearts pursueC2
That loveliness which never met our viewC2
Still to the last the ruling thought will reignM2
Nor deem one feeling given was giv'n invainM2
For it may be our banish'd souls recalN
In this their earthly thrallN
With the sick dreams of exiles that far worldN2
Whence angels once were hurl'dN2
Or it may be a faint and trembling senseB2
Vague as permitted by OmnipotenceB2
Foreshows the immortal radiance round us shedL2
When the Imperfect shall be perfectedO2
Like the chain'd eagle in his fetter'd mightV
Straining upon the Heavens his wistful sightV
Who toward the upward glory fondly springsB2
With all the vain strength of his shivering wingsB2
So chain'd to earth and baffled yet so fondP2
Of the pure sky which lies so far beyondP2
We make the attempt to soar in many a thoughtQ2
Of Beauty born and into Beauty wroughtQ2
Dimly we struggle onwards who shall sayN
Which glimmering light leads nearest to the DayN

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton



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