The Ideal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDEEFGHHIIJJ KKLLHH MMNNOOIIPQRSTTFFCC UUVVVWEXYZZA2A2BBB2B 2 C2D2BBE2F2OOG2G2BBH2 H2I2Y J2J2K2K2J2J2L2L2DDAM 2 N2N2AAKKQEHHHN2N2B2B 2B2DDO2O2 BBJ2J2C2P2J2J2J2J2E2 E2Q2Q2R2R2O2O2

Spirit of Dreams When many a toilsome heightA
Shut paradise from exiled Adam s sightA
Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to strayB
On either hand companions of his wayB
This Hope was named in heaven whence he cameC
And that of Melancholy bore the nameC
Thy parents these who clothed thee with a rayB
Snatched from Perfection as she passed awayB
And to their gentle child bequeathed the graceD
Wherewith they once adorned unfallen nature s faceD
Queen mother of Elysiums and all fairE
Hesperian gardens hear thy suppliant s prayerE
Lend me the hues with which the mortal eyesF
Thou dost bring back the tints of paradiseG
Hues drawn from all the splendours that there beH
In this new world from earth and sky and seaH
From nameless flowers that wild in forests runI
Up to the glories of the setting sunI
From those white flickers that round fountains leapJ
From the phosphoric lightenings of the deepJ
From wave wet sands that glisten on the shoreK
From blazing diamonds and rich beaming oreK
From these by thee with native art combinedL
And interblended with the light of mindL
These hues now lend thy suppliant for heH
The brilliant steps would trace of thy whole ministryH
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O for a golden lyre while first I singM
How thou dost lovelier make the loveliest thingM
Woman is beautiful no more unlessN
Thou touch her beauty with thy soft caressN
Then sweeter sweets her form at once investO
Than breathe in gales of Araby the blestO
A thousand charms from thy fair soul are givenI
And she outshines the very moon of heavenI
Lovely this prospect Yet thy presence hereP
Doubles each glory of the golden yearQ
Breathes but thy influence o er a pasture plainR
And lo tis flushed with Eden glows againS
This light how glorious A sun woven robeT
Wrapping in living warmth the fruitful globeT
But if thy touch lend vision to our eyesF
We see celestial radiance flood the skiesF
The common light burns with diviner flameC
It is the light of God Our awestruck souls exclaimC
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O he whose wild heart leaps to thy wild callU
Hath yet some joy whatever may befallU
Hath yet some wealth where destitution reignsV
Nay even some high inviolable gainsV
Where rapine sits enthroned and slavery clanks her chainsV
Still his possessions compass whatsoe erW
Of good and beauteous nature treasures thereE
Still the lone hill wild vale and pathless groveX
Are his by the great solemn right of loveY
For him what gold is in the morning s huesZ
What unbought jewels are the lucent dewsZ
What regal mansions are the brookside bowersA2
What gay assemblies the balm breathing flowersA2
Then every bird that pipes a matin layB
Doth unto him unconscious tribute payB
Yea every grace of stream and wood and skyB2
Is vassal to his sovereign ear and eyeB2
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And when the busy coils of Mammon s broodC2
Fail like the voices of an ebbing floodD2
And from the scenes that glared with her displayB
Pride drunken fashion rolls fatigued awayB
When from mild evening s shadowy robe the breezeE2
Shakes cool delight and odorous messagesF2
And when no longer the sun s beams fire crestO
The dusky hills but round him in the westO
Are gathered even like a summoned hostG2
In gorgeous tents on the horizon s coastG2
Ere to the regions of a separate dayB
He rolls at length in purple pomp awayB
Whilst yet some moments yet withdrawing gleamsH2
Travel the air and die along the streamsH2
A sumptuous festival that hour shall proveI2
To bathe his chosen soul with harmony and loveY
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When up the unclouded heaven in starry sheenJ2
Night walks like a gem sprangled Ethiop queenJ2
And from her solemn curtains wide unfurledK2
Falls dense repose upon the drowsy worldK2
No sordid appetite no passion meanJ2
Chains down thy votary to this mere terreneJ2
But following thee he freely soars afarL2
From moon to planet and from star to starL2
Yea onward still he venturous may traceD
Thy distant course through dimmest depths of spaceD
Till waxing bolder from the boundless flightA
He claim his kinship with the infiniteM2
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And now though mournful he thy servant s themeN2
A tale of hapless love or faded dreamN2
Of worth of men whose spirits once so brightA
Like halcyons gemmed the rivers of delightA
But fled misfortune s wintry floods beforeK
Never to show their shining plumage moreK
Still thou thy hope tired follower ever nearQ
Sublim st each sigh and hallowest every tearE
Till even despair thy handmaid grows to beH
Sending a lurid light by its intensityH
Through awful spirit depths thy foes can never seeH
Doth danger threaten and doth terror screamN2
O er their wild fronts a reconciling gleamN2
Thy wings reflect The storm that rends the skyB2
And ploughs the ocean can if thou art nighB2
Give to the heart stern strength and lift the soul on highB2
Thou throw st fierce loveliness o er ruin s faceD
And over death s calm brow a mild entrancing graceD
Nay be thy glance but turned where devils dwellO2
And a sad glory lightens out of hellO2
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Spirit of dreams Oh let me grateful sayB
How thou hast brightened my lone earthly wayB
When most beset by troubles stern and newJ2
When foes must triumphed friends were most untrueJ2
My soul s distractions thou hast all subduedC2
Through visions high of Love and Liberty and GoodP2
Or stood I like a wizard wild and loneJ2
On some great mountain s cloud frequented coneJ2
Meet altar of a universal faneJ2
Where no fiend rites had left their murder strainJ2
Thou gav st me faith s prophetic power to seizeE2
High consolation out of mysteriesE2
Those mystic terrors that low muttering rollQ2
Through life s dim tract the storm clouds of the soulQ2
O spirit Thus attend me to the lastR2
Brighten the future as thou did st the pastR2
May never aught thy splendid dreams dispelO2
Till the hard Real earn the heart s applause as wellO2

Charles Harpur



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