Properzia Rossi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJC AAKKLLMMDDNEOPQRSS MTTUUV WXYBZCFA2A2B2B2C2C2Q QD2E2D2E2 F2F2MM D2D2D2 MQQD2D2D2D2I GGG2H2G2H2I2J2D2D2K2 K2BBL2L2A2 MMM2B2B2M2N2N2M2M2WA MD2D2O2O2 D2D2D2D2BBM2BM2BP2P2 M2M2MM L2L2Q2Q2WWN2WN2R2 M2M2D2 D2Tell me no more no more | A |
Of my soul's lofty gifts Are they not vain | B |
To quench its haunting thirst for happiness | C |
Have I not lov'd and striven and fail'd to bind | D |
One true heart unto me whereon my own | E |
Might find a resting place a home for all | F |
Its burden of affections I depart | G |
Unknown tho' Fame goes with me I must leave | H |
The earth unknown Yet it may be that death | I |
Shall give my name a power to win such tears | J |
As would have made life precious | C |
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I | - |
ONE dream of passion and of beauty more | A |
And in its bright fulfillment let me pour | A |
My soul away Let earth retain a trace | K |
Of that which lit my being tho' its race | K |
Might have been loftier far Yet one more dream | L |
From my deep spirit one victorious gleam | L |
Ere I depart For thee alone for thee | M |
May this last work this farewell triumph be | M |
Thou lov'd so vainly I would leave enshrined | D |
Something immortal of my heart and mind | D |
That yet may speak to thee when I am gone | N |
Shaking thine inmost bosom with a tone | E |
Of lost affection something that may prove | O |
What she hath been whose melancholy love | P |
On thee was lavish'd silent pang and tear | Q |
And fervent song that gush'd when none were near | R |
And dream by night and weary thought by day | S |
Stealing the brightness from her life away | S |
While thou Awake not yet within me die | - |
Under the burden and the agony | M |
Of this vain tenderness my spirit wake | T |
Ev'n for thy sorrowful affection's sake | T |
Live in thy work breathe out that he may yet | U |
Feeling sad mastery there perchance regret | U |
Thine unrequited gift | V |
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II | - |
It comes the power | W |
Within me born flows back my fruitless dower | X |
That could not win me love Yet once again | Y |
I greet it proudly with its rushing train | B |
Of glorious images they throng they press | Z |
A sudden joy lights up my loneliness | C |
I shall not perish all | F |
The bright work grows | A2 |
Beneath my hand unfolding as a rose | A2 |
Leaf after leaf to beauty line by line | B2 |
I fix my thought heart soul to burn to shine | B2 |
Thro' the pale marble's veins It grows and now | C2 |
I give my own life's history to thy brow | C2 |
Forsaken Ariadne thou shalt wear | Q |
My form my lineaments but oh more fair | Q |
Touched into lovelier being by the glow | D2 |
Which in me dwells as by the summer light | E2 |
All things are glorified From thee my wo | D2 |
Shall yet look beautiful to meet his sight | E2 |
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When I am pass'd away Thou art the mould | F2 |
Wherein I pour the fervent thoughts th' untold | F2 |
The self consuming Speak to him of me | M |
Thou the deserted by the lonely sea | M |
With the soft sadness of thine earnest eye | - |
Speak to him lorn one deeply mournfully | D2 |
Of all my love and grief Oh could I throw | D2 |
Into thy frame a voice a sweet and low | D2 |
And thrilling voice of song when he came nigh | - |
To send the passion of its melody | M |
Thro' his pierced bosom on its tones to bear | Q |
My life's deep feeling as the southern air | Q |
Wafts the faint myrtle's breath to rise to swell | D2 |
To sink away in accents of farewell | D2 |
Winning but one one gush of tears whose flow | D2 |
Surely my parted spirit yet might know | D2 |
If love be strong as death | I |
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III | - |
Now fair thou art | G |
Thou form whose life is of my burning heart | G |
Yet all the vision that within me wrought | G2 |
I cannot make thee Oh I might have given | H2 |
Birth to creations of far nobler thought | G2 |
I might have kindled with the fire of heaven | H2 |
Things not of such as die But I have been | I2 |
Too much alone a heart whereon to lean | J2 |
With all these deep affections that o'erflow | D2 |
My aching soul and find no shore below | D2 |
An eye to be my star a voice to bring | K2 |
Hope o'er my path like sounds that breathe of spring | K2 |
These are denied me dreamt of still in vain | B |
Therefore my brief aspirings from the chain | B |
Are ever but as some wild fitful song | L2 |
Rising triumphantly to die ere long | L2 |
In dirge like echoes | A2 |
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IV | - |
Yet the world will see | M |
Little of this my parting work in thee | M |
Thou shalt have fame Oh mockery give the reed | M2 |
From storms a shelter give the drooping vine | B2 |
Something round which its tendrils may entwine | B2 |
Give the parch'd flower a rain drop and the meed | M2 |
Of love's kind words to woman Worthless fame | N2 |
That in his bosom wins not for my name | N2 |
Th' abiding place it ask'd Yet how my heart | M2 |
In its own fairy world of song and art | M2 |
Once beat for praise Are those high longings o'er | W |
That which I have been can I be no more | A |
Never oh never more tho' still thy sky | - |
Be blue as then my glorious Italy | M |
And tho' the music whose rich breathings fill | D2 |
Thine air with soul be wandering past me still | D2 |
And tho' the mantle of thy sunlight streams | O2 |
Unchang'd on forms instinct with poet dreams | O2 |
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Never oh never more Where'er I move | - |
The shadow of this broken hearted love | - |
Is on me and around Too well they know | D2 |
Whose life is all within too soon and well | D2 |
When there the blight hath settled but I go | D2 |
Under the silent wings of Peace to dwell | D2 |
From the slow wasting from the lonely pain | B |
The inward burning of those words 'in vain' | B |
Sear'd on the heart I go 'Twill soon be past | M2 |
Sunshine and song and bright Italian heaven | B |
And thou oh thou on whom my spirit cast | M2 |
Unvalued wealth who know'st not what was given | B |
In that devotedness the sad and deep | P2 |
And unrepaid farewell If I could weep | P2 |
Once only once belov'd one on thy breast | M2 |
Pouring my heart forth ere I sink to rest | M2 |
But that were happiness and unto me | M |
Earth's gift is fame Yet I was form'd to be | M |
So richly bless'd With thee to watch the sky | - |
Speaking not feeling but that thou wert nigh | - |
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With thee to listen while the tones of song | L2 |
Swept ev'n as part of our sweet air along | L2 |
To listen silently with thee to gaze | Q2 |
On forms the deified of olden days | Q2 |
This had been joy enough and hour by hour | W |
From its glad well springs drinking life and power | W |
How had my spirit soar'd and made its fame | N2 |
A glory for thy brow Dreams dreams the fire | W |
Burns faint within me Yet I leave my name | N2 |
As a deep thrill may linger on the lyre | R2 |
When its full chords are hush'd awhile to live | - |
And one day haply in thy heart revive | - |
Sad thoughts of me I leave it with a sound | M2 |
A spell o'er memory mournfully profound | M2 |
I leave it on my country's air to dwell | D2 |
Say proudly yet ' | - |
'Twas hers who lov'd me well | D2 |
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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