To Lyce. - Translations From Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HGHG FGFG IGIG JKJK| OD iv | A |
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| Lyce the gods have listened to my prayer | B |
| The gods have listened Lyce Thou art grey | C |
| And still would'st thou seem fair | B |
| Still unshamed drink and play | C |
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| And wine flushed woo slow answering Love with weak | D |
| Shrill pipings With young Chia He doth dwell | E |
| Queen of the harp her cheek | D |
| Is his sweet citadel | E |
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| He marked the withered oak and on he flew | F |
| Intolerant shrank from Lyce grim and wrinkled | G |
| Whose teeth are ghastly blue | F |
| Whose temples snow besprinkled | G |
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| Not purple not the brightest gem that glows | H |
| Brings back to her the years which fleeting fast | G |
| Time hath once shut in those | H |
| Dark annals of the Past | G |
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| Oh where is all thy loveliness soft hue | F |
| And motions soft Oh what of Her doth rest | G |
| Her who breathed love who drew | F |
| My heart out of my breast | G |
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| Fair and far famed and subtly sweet thy face | I |
| Ranked next to Cinara's But to Cinara fate | G |
| Gave but a few years' grace | I |
| And lets live all too late | G |
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| Lyce the rival of the beldam crow | J |
| That fiery youth may see with scornful brow | K |
| The torch that long ago | J |
| Beamed bright a cinder now | K |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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