Poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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A Domestic Scene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKLML JNKNOPOP

'Twas early day and sunlight stream'dA
Soft through a quiet roomB
That hush'd but not forsaken seem'dA
Still but with nought but gloomB
For there secure in happy ageC
Whose hope is from aboveD
A father communed with the pageC
Of Heaven's recorded loveD
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Pure fell the beam and meekly brightE
On his gray holy hairF
And touch'd the book with tenderest lightE
As if its shrine were thereF
But oh that patriarch's aspect shoneG
With something lovelier farH
A radiance all the spirits ownG
Caught not from the sun or starH
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Some word of life e'en then had metI
His calm benignant eyeJ
Some ancient promise breathing yetI
Of immortalityK
Some heart's deep language where the glowL
Of quenchless faith survivesM
For every feature said 'I knowL
That my Redeemer lives '-
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And silent stood his children byJ
Hushing their very breathN
Before this solemn sanctityK
Of thoughts o'ersweeping deathN
Silent yet did not each young breastO
With love and rev'rence meltP
Oh blest be those fair girls and blestO
That home where God is feltP

Felicia Dorothea Hemans



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