A Spirit's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEF GGHHIIJKJL MNNNOO PQPQRS TTUUVVWXWXYV FFFFNGGNFFFZFZ VA2A2GB2NN OC2OC2D2GE2VF2F2G2G2 G2H2NG2I2J2FK2G2G2NG 2NG2NNL2M2L2M2B2G2GB 2NNG2 NNN2N2O2O2P2Q2Q2P2G2 G2FF G2G2R2G2VVG2NS2S2G2G 2F G2B2G2G2G2 GG2NNG2G2GG2G2G2S2S2 Q2NB2G2NAF2Q2G2G2VVF 2F2G2G2GB2T2T2G2G2GB 2N2N2FFU2U2G2NG2G2G NNG2G2V2V2G2G2 G2G2FFVVS2S2U2B2'This is to be a mortal | A |
And seek the things beyond mortality ' Manfred | B |
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Thy voice prevails dear friend my gentle friend | C |
This long shut heart for thee shall be unsealed | D |
And though thy soft eye mournfully will bend | C |
Over the troubled stream yet once revealed | D |
Shall its freed waters flow then rocks must close | E |
For evermore above their dark repose | F |
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Come while the gorgeous mysteries of the sky | G |
Fused in the crimson sea of sunset lie | G |
Come to the woods where all strange wandering sound | H |
Is mingled into harmony profound | H |
Where the leaves thrill with spirit while the wind | I |
Fills with a viewless being unconfined | I |
The trembling reeds and fountains our own dwell | J |
With its green dimness and AEolian breath | K |
Shall suit the unveiling of dark records well | J |
Hear me in tenderness and silent faith | L |
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Thou knewest me not in life's fresh vernal morn | M |
I would thou hadst for then my heart on thine | N |
Had poured a worthier love now all o'erworn | N |
By its deep thirst for something too divine | N |
It hath but fitful music to bestow | O |
Echoes of harp strings broken long ago | O |
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Yet even in youth companionless I stood | P |
As a lone forest bird 'midst ocean's foam | Q |
For me the silver cords of brotherhood | P |
Were early loosed the voice from my home | Q |
Passed one by one and melody and mirth | R |
Left me a dreamer by a silent hearth | S |
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But with the fulness of a heart that burned | T |
For the deep sympathies of mind I turned | T |
From that unanswering spot and fondly sought | U |
In all wild scenes with thrilling murmurs fraught | U |
In every still small voice and sound of power | V |
And flute note of the wind through cave and bower | V |
A perilous delight for then first woke | W |
My life's lone passion the mysterious quest | X |
Of secret knowledge and each tone that broke | W |
From the wood arches or the fountain's breast | X |
Making my quick soul vibrate as a lyre | Y |
But ministered to that strange inborn fire | V |
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'Midst the bright silence of the mountain dells | F |
In noontide hours or golden summer eves | F |
My thoughts have burst forth as a gale that swells | F |
Into a rushing blast and from the leaves | F |
Shakes out response O thou rich world unseen | N |
Thou curtained realm of spirits thus my cry | G |
Hath troubled air and silence dost thou lie | G |
Spread all around yet by some filmy screen | N |
Shut from us ever The resounding woods | F |
Do their depths teem with marvels and the floods | F |
And the pure fountains leading secret veins | F |
Of quenchless melody through rock and hill | Z |
Have they bright dwellers are their lone domains | F |
Peopled with beauty which may never still | Z |
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Our | V |
weary thirst of soul Cold weak and cold | A2 |
Is earth's vain language piercing not one fold | A2 |
Of our deep being Oh for gifts more high | G |
For a seer's glance to rend mortality | B2 |
For a charmed rod to call from each dark shrine | N |
The oracles divine | N |
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I woke from those high fantasies to know | O |
My kindred with the earth I woke to love | C2 |
O gentle friend to love in doubt and woe | O |
Shutting the heart the worshipped name above | C2 |
Is to love deeply and | D2 |
my | G |
spirit's dower | E2 |
Was a sad gift a melancholy power | V |
Of so adoring with a buried care | F2 |
And with the o'erflowing of a voiceless prayer | F2 |
And with a deepening dream that day by day | G2 |
In the still shadow of the lonely sway | G2 |
Folded me closer till the world held nought | G2 |
Save the | H2 |
one | N |
being to my centred thought | G2 |
There was no music but his voice to hear | I2 |
No joy but such as with | J2 |
his | F |
step drew near | K2 |
Light was but where he looked life where he moved | G2 |
Silently fervently thus thus I loved | G2 |
Oh but such love is fearful and I knew | N |
Its gathering doom the soul's prophetic sight | G2 |
Even then unfolded in my breast and threw | N |
O'er all things round a full strong vivid light | G2 |
Too sorrowfully clear an under tone | N |
Was given to Nature's harp for me alone | N |
Whispering of grief Of grief be strong awake | L2 |
Hath not thy love been victory O my soul | M2 |
Hath not its conflict won a voice to shake | L2 |
Death's fastness a magic to control | M2 |
Worlds far removed from o'er the grave to thee | B2 |
Love hath made answer and | G2 |
thy | G |
tale should be | B2 |
Sung like a lay of triumph Now return | N |
And take thy treasure from its bosomed urn | N |
And lift it once to light | G2 |
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In fear in pain | N |
I said I loved but yet a heavenly strain | N |
Of sweetness floated down the tearful stream | N2 |
A joy flashed through the trouble of my dream | N2 |
I knew myself beloved we breathed no vow | O2 |
No mingling visions might our fate allow | O2 |
As unto happy hearts but still and deep | P2 |
Like a rich jewel gleaming in a grave | Q2 |
Like golden sand in some dark river's wave | Q2 |
So did my soul that costly knowledge keep | P2 |
So jealousy a thing o'er which to shed | G2 |
When stars alone beheld the drooping head | G2 |
Lone tears yet ofttimes burdened with the excess | F |
Of our strange nature's quivering happiness | F |
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But oh sweet friend we dream not of love's might | G2 |
Till death has robed with soft and solemn light | G2 |
The image we enshrine Before | R2 |
that | G2 |
hour | V |
We have but glimpses of the o'ermastering power | V |
Within us laid | G2 |
then | N |
doth the spirit flame | S2 |
With sword like lightning rend its mortal frame | S2 |
The wings of that which pants to follow fast | G2 |
Shake their clay bars as with a prisoned blast | G2 |
The sea is in our souls | F |
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He died | G2 |
he | B2 |
died | G2 |
On whom my lone devotedness was cast | G2 |
I might not keep one vigil by his side | G2 |
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I | G |
whose wrung heart watched with him to the last | G2 |
I might not once his fainting head sustain | N |
Nor bathe his parched lips in the hour of pain | N |
Nor say to him 'Farewell ' He passed away | G2 |
Oh had | G2 |
my | G |
love been there its conquering sway | G2 |
Had won him back from death but thus removed | G2 |
Borne o'er the abyss no sounding line hath proved | G2 |
Joined with the unknown the viewless he became | S2 |
Unto my thoughts another yet the same | S2 |
Changed hallowed glorified and his low grave | Q2 |
Seemed a bright mournful altar mine all mine | N |
Brother and friend soon left me | B2 |
that | G2 |
sole shrine | N |
The birthright of the faithful | A |
their | F2 |
world's wave | Q2 |
Soon swept them from its brink Oh deem thou not | G2 |
That on the sad and consecrated spot | G2 |
My soul grew weak I tell thee that a power | V |
There kindled heart and lip a fiery shower | V |
My words were made a might was given to prayer | F2 |
And a strong grasp to passionate despair | F2 |
And a dread triumph Knowest thou what I sought | G2 |
For what high boon my struggling spirit wrought | G2 |
Communion with the dead I sent a cry | G |
Through the veiled empires of eternity | B2 |
A voice to cleave them By the mournful truth | T2 |
By the lost promise of my blighted youth | T2 |
By the strong chain a mighty love can bind | G2 |
On the beloved the spell of mind o'er mind | G2 |
By words which in themselves are magic high | G |
Armed and inspired and winged with agony | B2 |
By tears which comfort not but burn and seem | N2 |
To bear the heart's blood in their passion stream | N2 |
I summoned I adjured with quickened sense | F |
With the keen vigil of a life intense | F |
I watched an answer from the winds to wring | U2 |
I listened if perchance the stream might bring | U2 |
Token from worlds afar I taught | G2 |
one | N |
sound | G2 |
Unto a thousand echoes one profound | G2 |
Imploring accent to the tomb the sky | G |
One prayer to night 'Awake appear reply ' | - |
Hast thou been told that from the viewless bourne | N |
The dark way never hath allowed return | N |
That all which tears can move with life is fled | G2 |
That earthly love is powerless on the dead | G2 |
Believe it not there is a large lone star | V2 |
Now burning o'er yon western hill afar | V2 |
And under its clear light there lies a spot | G2 |
Which well might utter forth Believe it not | G2 |
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I sat beneath that planet I had wept | G2 |
My woe to stillness every night wind slept | G2 |
A hush was on the hills the very streams | F |
Went by like clouds or noiseless founts in dreams | F |
And the dark tree o'ershadowing me that hour | V |
Stood motionless even as the grey church tower | V |
Whereon I gazed unconsciously there came | S2 |
A low sound like the tremor of a flame | S2 |
Or like the light quick shiver of a wing | U2 |
Flitting t | B2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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