A Poet's Home Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 31 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

A Simple Gift Of Clarity
by Michael Mcguire
Ring Of Fire
by N. Khanyile
A Disturbing Dream
by Marlon Pitter
Crab Lice
by Marlon Pitter
Biography Of The Anonymous
by Gilbert Sordebabari
Lost In Search Of A Saved Child
by Michael Mcguire
Dark Lens
by Gilbert Sordebabari
The Ship
by Pieter Sanders
Rose Bush
by Aubrie J Chellman
Between Condemning Bad Acts And Doing Bad Things, Which One Is Worse?
by Marlon Pitter

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2415 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

HERE in this lonely rill engirdled spot	A
The world forgetting by the world forgot	A
With one vowed to me with beloved lips	B
How sweet to draw as hiddenly from time	C
As from its rocks yon shaded fountain slips	B
My yet remaining prime	C
	-
Here early rising from a sinless bed	D
How sweet it were to view Aurora shed	D
Her first white glances o er the dusky wood	E
When powdered as with pearls the sprays all gleam	F
Through the grey dawn like prophecies of good	E
Or like some fairy dream	F
	-
And while the clouds imbibed a golden hue	G
And purple streaks grained yon ethereal blue	G
By the glad voice of every early bird	H
As some full lake by breezes in their glee	I
Is rippled into smiles how sweetly stirred	H
My spirit then should be	I
	-
And as like burning bullion brightened still	J
The cloud hung East over yon misty hill	J
I d watch the sun s ethereal chariot come	K
Filling the glades with flakes of chrystal fire	L
And the green spaces round my rural home	M
Where slept mine Heart s Desire	L
	-
When if sweet memories of her sleeping smile	N
Should my devotion thitherward beguile	N
Cheating the morn of its observance due	G
My happy voice should not be wanting long	O
To wile her forth with loving transport true	G
Or wake her with a song	O
	-
Awake my fair one for the glowing skies	P
Desire thee and a thousand flowery eyes	P
Look for thy coming from each pathway side	Q
With all things fresh and beautiful and bright	R
The earth s adorned like an Eastern bride	Q
Arise my best delight	R
	-
What can be deeper than the heavens o erbending	O
Or what be richer than the colours blending	O
Amid the green cones of the misty hill	J
What gladder than the runnel s silvery fall	S
And yet my spirit asketh something still	J
Tis thee the crown of all	S
	-
Joined by the Angel of my life behold	T
The day s unfolded gates of heavenly gold	T
How lovelier now for her dear loveliness	P
The birds the stream the forest s leafy stir	L
Catch from her voice a double power to bless	P
And the flowers breathe of her	L
	-
The dews are brighter for her love bright eyes	P
And the air sweeter for the soul that lies	P
In every gesture of her gentle face	P
So widely Love s invisible spirit flings	P
The visible enrichment of its grace	P
O er all regarded things	P
	-
Filled with the fresh keen life that so sublimes	P
Both mind and body we should then betimes	P
Repair us to our cheerful morning meal	U
Not more attuned by thankfulness of heart	V
Well to enjoy than willing in our weal	U
To spare a stranger part	V
	-
Sufficed and grateful to her household care	W
Should she betake her then I fieldward fare	W
To till the thriving maize or guide the plough	X
Through the rich loam or while the slant sunshine	Y
Carress d them to remark the melons how	X
They lumped from out their vine	Y
	-
Thence to the well kept orchard to behold	T
The orange trees o erhung with globes of gold	T
Or thin the peachy tribes all ruddy cheeked	Z
And clumping from the branches and with these	P
The nectarine s fragrant swarms so lushly streaked	Z
That flavour even the breeze	P
	-
To pluck the fig that in its broad leafed shade	A2
Secretes its ripeness even like a maid	A2
Mature for love who yet through bashfulness	P
Doth shun or seem to shun each wooer s sight	R
Or stay the drooping vine whose every tress	P
Is bunch d with clusters bright	R
	-
So should the noon draw on when in yon shade	A2
Beside the rill on the green herbage laid	A2
In careless luxury my faint limbs should be	I
And hearing but the splash of feathered things	P
Then fluttering downward from some neighbouring tree	I
To dip their shining wings	P
	-
Or the slow rising and most summery hum	K
Of gorgeous insects that at times might come	K
Over the runnel and so voyage by	B2
Or the light footfall on the farther brink	O
Of some wild creature from its covert nigh	B2
Just venturing forth to drink	O
	-
I d calmly think of all my wandering youth	C2
Had suffered with a heart so dear to Truth	C2
That she at length had portioned it with love	D2
And then of her who to my very soul	U
Was what the vitalising Sun above	D2
Is to the natural whole	U
	-
Thus rested when the fieryer winged hours	P
Were quenching in the west with freshened powers	P
The field again in honorable toil	U
Should hear me ending what the morn begun	E2
Till I might say scanning the well dressed soil	U
A good day s work is done	E2
	-
Then whilst I woodward drove the unharnessed steer	F2
Or for the kine was searching somewhere near	F2
Grouping full fed in ruminating mood	G2
The sun should light upon yon western hill	U
Slanting his last beams through the shadowing wood	E
And up the gleaming rill	U
	-
To sink at length and make the clouds above	D2
Golden idealisms of the love	D2
My heart poured out on Nature and on her	L
Now waiting me at our peace hallowed board	H2
Thus placed who d care amongst the great to stir	L
Or with the rich to hoard	H2
	-
The pens secured the final meal in haste	I2
Despatch d though savoury both should forth to taste	I2
Eve s odorous breath and with renewed surprise	P
To find Elysiums painted in the west	J2
And looking then into each other s eyes	P
Should feel that we were blest	J2
	-
And when the gloaming followed Evening s flight	R
Whilst yet o er yonder hills a skiey light	R
Keeps mellowing upward near to where first seen	K2
The glowing Leader of the starry quire	L2
Comes wingedly from out the blue serene	K2
Even like a bird of fire	L
	-
The hushing bounties of those twilight hours	P
Falling into our souls as in the flowers	P
Balm breathing bosoms melt the silent dews	P
Should freshen every feeling mild and wise	P
And thence o er all our charities diffuse	P
The quiet of the skies	P
	-
Thus should the night come on in solemn guise	P
To look with all her far ethereal eyes	P
Upon my happy life and draw my soul	U
To wander like a star the stars among	O
And homeward point from the resplendent pole	U
Uranian beams of song	O
	-
Or whilst the moon the world s apparent queen	K2
Came whitening up in majesty serene	K2
Reminding us of some dear long past night	R
I d chronicle in rhyme the many things	P
Of lovely thought that from her mystic light	R
Had woven them their wings	P

Charles Harpur

A Poet's Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

About A Poet's Home

Write your comment about A Poet's Home poem by Charles Harpur

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets