Arabella Stuart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C D D EFEFGGHH IIJJ KKAALLDMDMNOP QEQERRSSTTUUDDVVDD DDDDDDGWXWCCYYZZ S FKFKDEDEMA2MA2DDB2C2 E D2E2D2E2F2F2G2G2SSMH 2H2I2I2J2J2 S K2K2DDZZDDEEAL2DDSEE E E2E2DDE FEFEDDCCM2N2 S LLO2P2O2P2D2D2XXEE S PDPD Q2R2ES2DDEE P T2PT2PPPPP EEP DDCCDU2| And is not love in vain | A |
| Torture enough without a living tomb | B |
| - | |
| Byron | C |
| - | |
| Fermossi al fin il cor che balz tanto | D |
| - | |
| Pindemonte | D |
| - | |
| I | - |
| - | |
| 'TWAS but a dream I saw the stag leap free | E |
| Under the boughs where early birds were singing | F |
| I stood o'ershadowed by the greenwood tree | E |
| And heard it seemed a sudden bugle ringing | F |
| Far thro' a royal forest then the fawn | G |
| Shot like a gleam of light from grassy lawn | G |
| To secret covert and the smooth turf shook | H |
| And lilies quiver'd by the glade's lone brook | H |
| - | |
| And young leaves trembled as in fleet career | I |
| A princely band with horn and hound and spear | I |
| Like a rich masque swept forth I saw the dance | J |
| Of their white plumes that bore a silvery glance | J |
| Into the deep wood's heart and all pass'd by | - |
| Save one I met the smile of one clear eye | - |
| Flashing out joy to mine Yes thou wert there | K |
| Seymour a soft wind blew the clustering hair | K |
| Back from thy gallant brow as thou didst rein | A |
| Thy courser turning from that gorgeous train | A |
| And fling methought thy hunting spear away | L |
| And lightly graceful in thy green array | L |
| Bound to my side and we that met and parted | D |
| Ever in dread of some dark watchful power | M |
| Won back to childhood's trust and fearless hearted | D |
| Blent the glad fulness of our thoughts that hour | M |
| Even like the mingling of sweet streams beneath | N |
| Dim woven leaves and midst the floating breath | O |
| Of hidden forest flowers | P |
| - | |
| II | - |
| - | |
| 'Tis past I wake | Q |
| A captive and alone and far from thee | E |
| My love and friend Yet fostering for thy sake | Q |
| A quenchless hope of happiness to be | E |
| And feeling still my woman's spirit strong | R |
| In the deep faith which lifts from earthly wrong | R |
| A heavenward glance I know I know our love | S |
| Shall yet call gentle angels from above | S |
| By its undying fervour and prevail | T |
| Sending a breath as of the spring's first gale | T |
| Thro' hearts now cold and raising its bright face | U |
| With a free gush of sunny tears erase | U |
| The characters of anguish In this trust | D |
| I bear I strive I bow not to the dust | D |
| That I may bring thee back no faded form | V |
| No bosom chill'd and blighted by the storm | V |
| But all my youth's first treasures when we meet | D |
| Making past sorrow by communion sweet | D |
| - | |
| - | |
| III | - |
| - | |
| And thou too art in bonds yet droop thou not | D |
| Oh my belov'd there is one hopeless lot | D |
| But one and that not ours Beside the dead | D |
| There sits the grief that mantles up its head | D |
| Loathing the laughter and proud pomp of light | D |
| When darkness from the vainly doting sight | D |
| Covers its beautiful If thou wert gone | G |
| To the grave's bosom with thy radiant brow | W |
| If thy deep thrilling voice with that low tone | X |
| Of earnest tenderness which now ev'n now | W |
| Seems floating thro' my soul were music taken | C |
| For ever from this world oh thus forsaken | C |
| Could I bear on thou liv'st thou liv'st thou'rt mine | Y |
| With this glad thought I make my heart a shrine | Y |
| And by the lamp which quenchless there shall burn | Z |
| Sit a lone watcher for the day's return | Z |
| - | |
| - | |
| IV | S |
| - | |
| And lo the joy that cometh with the morning | F |
| Brightly victorious o'er the hours of care | K |
| I have not watch'd in vain serenely scorning | F |
| The wild and busy whispers of despair | K |
| Thou hast sent tidings as of heaven I wait | D |
| The hour the sign for blessed flight to thee | E |
| Oh for the skylark's wing that seeks its mate | D |
| As a star shoots but on the breezy sea | E |
| We shall meet soon To think of such an hour | M |
| Will not my heart o'erburdened by its bliss | A2 |
| Faint and give way within me as a flower | M |
| Borne down and perishing by noontide's kiss | A2 |
| Yet shall I fear that lot the perfect rest | D |
| The full deep joy of dying on thy breast | D |
| After long suffering won So rich a close | B2 |
| Too seldom crowns with peace affection's woes | C2 |
| - | |
| - | |
| V | E |
| - | |
| Sunset I tell each moment from the skies | D2 |
| The last red splendour floats along my wall | E2 |
| Like a king's banner Now it melts it dies | D2 |
| I see one star I hear 'twas not the call | E2 |
| Th' expected voice my quick heart throbb'd too soon | F2 |
| I must keep vigil till yon rising moon | F2 |
| Shower down less golden light Beneath her beam | G2 |
| Thro' my lone lattice pour'd I sit and dream | G2 |
| Of summer lands afar where holy love | S |
| Under the vine or in the citron grove | S |
| May breathe from terror | M |
| Now the night grows deep | H2 |
| And silent as its clouds and full of sleep | H2 |
| I hear my veins beat Hark a bell's slow chime | I2 |
| My heart strikes with it Yet again 'tis time | I2 |
| A step a voice or but a rising breeze | J2 |
| Hark haste I come to meet thee on the seas | J2 |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| VI | S |
| - | |
| Now never more oh never in the worth | K2 |
| Of its pure cause let sorrowing love on earth | K2 |
| Trust fondly never more the hope is crush'd | D |
| That lit my life the voice within me hush'd | D |
| That spoke sweet oracles and I return | Z |
| To lay my youth as in a burial urn | Z |
| Where sunshine may not find it All is lost | D |
| No tempest met our barks no billow toss'd | D |
| Yet were they sever'd ev'n as we must be | E |
| That so have lov'd so striven our hearts to free | E |
| From their close coiling fate In vain in vain | A |
| The dark links meet and clasp themselves again | L2 |
| And press out life Upon the deck I stood | D |
| And a white sail came gliding o'er the flood | D |
| Like some proud bird of ocean then mine eye | S |
| Strained out one moment earlier to descry | E |
| The form it ached for and the bark's career | E |
| Seem'd slow to that fond yearning it drew near | E |
| - | |
| - | |
| Fraught with our foes What boots it to recall | E2 |
| The strife the tears Once more a prison wall | E2 |
| Shuts the green hills and woodlands from my sight | D |
| And joyous glance of waters to the light | D |
| And thee my Seymour thee | E |
| - | |
| I will not sink | F |
| Thou thou hast rent the heavy chain that bound thee | E |
| And this shall be my strength the joy to think | F |
| That thou mayst wander with heaven's breath around thee | E |
| And all the laughing sky This thought shall yet | D |
| Shine o'er my heart a radiant amulet | D |
| Guarding it from despair Thy bonds are broken | C |
| And unto me I know thy true love's token | C |
| Shall one day be deliverance tho' the years | M2 |
| Lie dim between o'erhung with mists of tears | N2 |
| - | |
| - | |
| VII | S |
| - | |
| My friend my friend where art thou Day by day | L |
| Gliding like some dark mournful stream away | L |
| My silent youth flows from me Spring the while | O2 |
| Comes and rains beauty on the kindling boughs | P2 |
| Round hall and hamlet Summer with her smile | O2 |
| Fills the green forest young hearts breathe their vows | P2 |
| Brothers long parted meet fair children rise | D2 |
| Round the glad board Hope laughs from loving eyes | D2 |
| All this is in the world These joys lie sown | X |
| The dew of every path On one alone | X |
| Their freshness may not fall the stricken deer | E |
| Dying of thirst with all the waters near | E |
| - | |
| VIII | S |
| - | |
| Ye are from dingle and fresh glade ye flowers | P |
| By some kind hand to cheer my dungeon sent | D |
| O'er you the oak shed down the summer showers | P |
| And the lark's nest was where your bright cups bent | D |
| - | |
| Quivering to breeze and rain drop like the sheen | Q2 |
| Of twilight stars On you Heaven's eye hath been | R2 |
| Thro' the leaves pouring its dark sultry bIue | E |
| Into your glowing hearts the bee to you | S2 |
| Hath murmur'd and the rill My soul grows faint | D |
| With passionate yearning as its quick dreams paint | D |
| Your haunts by dell and stream the green the free | E |
| The full of all sweet sound the shut from me | E |
| - | |
| IX | P |
| - | |
| There went a swift bird singing past my cell | T2 |
| O Love and Freedom ye are lovely things | P |
| With you the peasant on the hills may dwell | T2 |
| And by the streams but I the blood of kings | P |
| A proud unmingling river thro' my veins | P |
| Flows in lone brightness and its gifts are chains | P |
| Kings I had silent visions of deep bliss | P |
| Leaving their thrones far distant and for this | P |
| - | |
| I am cast under their triumphal car | E |
| An insect to be crushed Oh Heaven is far | E |
| Earth pitiless | P |
| - | |
| Dost thou forget me Seymour I am prov'd | D |
| So long so sternly Seymour my belov'd | D |
| There are such tales of holy marvels done | C |
| By strong affection of deliverance won | C |
| Thro' its prevailing power Are these things told | D |
| Till | U2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Arabella Stuart
Arabella Stuart is a poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Arabella Stuart poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Best Poems of Felicia Dorothea Hemans
