To The Lady H.o. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEA FGFGHIHIA JKJKLMNMO PQ QRSRSO TUTUKVKVO WXWXYZA2ZO B2C2B2C2D2OD2XO E2XE2XF2G2F2G2| I | A |
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| COME o'er the green hills to the sunny sea | B |
| The boundless sea that washeth many lands | C |
| Where shells unknown to England fair and free | B |
| Lie brightly scatter'd on the gleaming sands | C |
| There 'midst the hush of slumbering ocean's roar | D |
| We'll sit and watch the silver tissued waves | E |
| Creep languidly along the basking shore | D |
| And kiss thy gentle feet like Eastern slaves | E |
| II | A |
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| And we will take some volume of our choice | F |
| Full of a quiet poetry of thought | G |
| And thou shalt read me with thy plaintive voice | F |
| Lines which some gifted mind hath sweetly wrought | G |
| And I will listen gazing on thy face | H |
| Pale as some cameo on the Italian shell | I |
| Or looking out across the far blue space | H |
| Where glancing sails to gentle breezes swell | I |
| III | A |
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| Come forth The sun hath flung on Thetis' breast | J |
| The glittering tresses of his golden hair | K |
| All things are heavy with a noonday rest | J |
| And floating sea birds leave the stirless air | K |
| Against the sky in outlines clear and rude | L |
| The cleft rocks stand while sunbeams slant between | M |
| And lulling winds are murmuring thro' the wood | N |
| Which skirts the bright bay with its fringe of green | M |
| IV | O |
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| Come forth All motion is so gentle now | P |
| It seems thy step alone should walk the earth | Q |
| Thy voice alone the 'ever soft and low ' | - |
| Wake the far haunting echoes into birth | Q |
| Too wild would be love's passionate store of hope | R |
| Unmeet the influence of his changeful power | S |
| Ours be companionship whose gentle scope | R |
| Hath charm enough for such a tranquil hour | S |
| V | O |
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| And slowly idly wandering we will roam | T |
| Where the high cliffs shall give us ample shade | U |
| And watch the glassy waves whose wrathful foam | T |
| Hath power to make the seaman's heart afraid | U |
| Seek thou no veil to shroud thy soft brown hair | K |
| Wrap thou no mantle round thy graceful form | V |
| The cloudless sky smiles forth as still and fair | K |
| As tho' earth ne'er could know another storm | V |
| VI | O |
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| Come Let not listless sadness make delay | W |
| Beneath Heaven's light that sadness will depart | X |
| And as we wander on our shoreward way | W |
| A strange sweet peace shall enter in thine heart | X |
| We will not weep nor talk of vanish'd years | Y |
| When link by link Hope's glittering chain was riven | Z |
| Those who are dead shall claim from love no tears | A2 |
| Those who have injured us shall be forgiven | Z |
| VII | O |
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| Few have my summers been and fewer thine | B2 |
| Youth blighted is the weary lot of both | C2 |
| To both all lonely shows our life's declne | B2 |
| Both with old friends and ties have wax d wroth | C2 |
| But yet we will not weep The breathless calm | D2 |
| Which lulls the golden earth and wide blue sea | O |
| Shall pour into our souls mysterious balm | D2 |
| And fill us with its own tranquillity | X |
| VIII | O |
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| We will not mar the scene we will not look | E2 |
| To the veil'd future or the shadowy past | X |
| Seal'd up shall be sad Memory's open book | E2 |
| And childhood's idleness return at last | X |
| Joy with his restless ever fluttering wings | F2 |
| And Hope his gentle brother all shall cease | G2 |
| Like weary hinds that seek the desert springs | F2 |
| Our one sole feeling shall be peace deep peace | G2 |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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