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Felicia Dorothea Hemans

The Bride Of The Greek Isle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Fear I'm a Greek and how should I fear death	A
A slave and wherefore should I dread my freedom	B
I will not live degraded	C
Sardanapalus	D
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Come from the woods with the citron flowers	D
Come with your lyres for the festal hours	D
Maids of bright Scio They came and the breeze	D
Bore their sweet songs o'er the Grecian seas	D
They came and Eudora stood rob'd and crown'd	E
The bride of the morn with her train around	E
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Jewels flash'd out from her braided hair	F
Like starry dews midst the roses there	F
Pearls on her bosom quivering shone	G
Heav'd by her heart thro' its golden zone	G
But a brow as those gems of the ocean pale	H
Gleam'd from beneath her transparent veil	H
Changeful and faint was her fair cheek's hue	I
Though clear as a flower which the light looks through	I
And the glance of her dark resplendent eye	J
For the aspect of woman at times too high	J
Lay floating in mists which the troubled stream	K
Of the soul sent up o'er its fervid beam	K
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She look'd on the vine at her father's door	L
Like one that is leaving his native shore	L
She hung o'er the myrtle once call'd her own	G
As it greenly wav'd by the threshold stone	G
She turn'd and her mother's gaze brought back	M
Each hue of her childhood's faded track	M
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Oh hush the song and let her tears	D
Flow to the dream of her early years	D
Holy and pure are the drops that fall	N
When the young bride goes from her father's hall	N
She goes unto love yet untried and new	I
She parts from love which hath still been true	I
Mute be the song and the choral strain	O
Till her heart's deep well spring is clear again	P
She wept on her mother's faithful breast	Q
Like a babe that sobs itself to rest	Q
She wept yet laid her hand awhile	R
In his that waited her dawning smile	R
Her soul's affianced nor cherish'd less	D
For the gush of nature's tenderness	D
She lifted her graceful head at last	S
The choking swell of her heart was past	S
And her lovely thoughts from their cells found way	T
In the sudden flow of a plaintive lay	T
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The Bride's Farewell	U
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Why do I weep to leave the vine	V
Whose clusters o'er me bend	W
The myrtle yet oh call it mine	V
The flowers I lov'd to tend	W
A thousand thoughts of all things dear	X
Like shadows o'er me sweep	Y
I leave my sunny childhood here	Z
Oh therefore let me weep	Y
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I leave thee sister we have play'd	A2
Thro' many a joyous hour	B2
Where the silvery green of the olive shade	A2
Hung dim o'er fount and bower	B2
Yes thou and I by stream by shore	L
In song in prayer in sleep	Y
Have been as we may be no more	L
Kind sister let me weep	Y
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I leave thee father Eve's bright moon	C2
Must now light other feet	D2
With the gather'd grapes and the lyre in tune	C2
Thy homeward step to greet	D2
Thou in whose voice to bless thy child	E2
Lay tones of love so deep	Y
Whose eye o'er all my youth hath smiled	E2
I leave thee let me weep	Y
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Mother I leave thee on thy breast	Q
Pouring out joy and wo	F2
I have found that holy place of rest	Q
Still changeless yet I go	F2
Lips that have lull'd me with your strain	O
Eyes that have watch'd my sleep	Y
Will earth give love like yours again	P
Sweet mother let me weep	Y
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And like a slight young tree that throws	D
The weight of rain from its drooping boughs	D
Once more she wept But a changeful thing	G2
Is the human heart as a mountain spring	G2
That works its way thro' the torrent's foam	H2
To the bright pool near it the lily's home	H2
It is well the cloud on her soul that lay	T
Hath melted in glittering drops away	T
Wake again mingle sweet flute and lyre	I2
She turns to her lover she leaves her sire	B2
Mother on earth it must still be so	F2
Thou rearest the lovely to see them go	F2
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They are moving onward the bridal throng	J2
Ye may track their way by the swells of song	J2
Ye may catch thro' the foliage their white robes' gleam	K
Like a swan midst the reeds of a shadowy stream	K
Their arms bear up garlands their gliding tread	K2
Is over the deep vein'd violet's bed	K2
They have light leaves around them blue skies above	L2
An arch for the triumph of youth and love	L2
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II	M2
Still and sweet was the home that stood	N2
In the flowering depths of a Grecian wood	N2
With the soft green light o'er its low roof spread	K2
As if from the glow of an emerald shed	K2
Pouring thro' lime leaves that mingled on high	J
Asleep in the silence of noon's clear sky	J
Citrons amidst their dark foliage glow'd	O2
Making a gleam round the lone abode	O2
Laurels o'erhung it whose faintest shiver	B2
Scatter'd out rays like a glancing river	B2
Stars of the jasmine its pillars crown'd	E
Vine stalks its lattice and walls had bound	E
And brightly before it a fountain's play	T
Flung showers thro' a thicket of glossy bay	T
To a cypress which rose in that flashing rain	O
Like one tall shaft of some fallen fane	O
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And thither Ianthis had brought his bride	P2
And the guests were met by that fountain side	P2
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They lifted the veil from Eudora's face	D
It smiled out softly in pensive grace	D
With lips of love and a brow serene	Q2
Meet for the soul of the deep wood scene	Q2
Bring wine bring odours the board is spread	K2
Bring roses a chaplet for every head	K2
The wine cups foam'd and the rose was shower'd	R2
On the young and fair from the world embower'd	R2
The sun looked not on them in that sweet shade	R2
The winds amid scented boughs were laid	R2
And there came by fits thro' some wavy tree	S2
A sound and a gleam of the moaning sea	S2
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Hush be still was that no more	L
Than the murmur from the shore	L
Silence did thick rain drops beat	R2
On the grass like trampling feet	R2
Fling down the goblet and draw the sword	R2
The groves are fill'd with a pirate horde	R2
Thro' the dim olives their sabres shine	V
Now must the red blood stream for wine	V
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The youths from the banquet to battle sprang	T2
The woods with the shriek of the maidens rang	T2
Under the golden fruited boughs	D
There were flashing poniards and dark'ning brows	D
Footsteps o'er garland and lyre that fled	R2
And the dying soon on a greensward bed	R2
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Eudora Eudora thou dost not fly	J
She saw but Ianthis before her lie	J
With the blood from his breast in a gushing flow	F2
Like a child's large tears in its hour of wo	F2
And a gathering film in his lifted eye	J
That sought his young bride out mournfully	F2
She knelt down beside him her arms she wound	R2
Like tendrils his drooping neck around	R2
As if the passion of that fond grasp	U2
Might chain in life with its ivy clasp	U2
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But they tore her thence in her wild despair	F
The sea's fierce rovers they left him there	F
They left to the fountain a dark red vein	O
And on the wet violets a pile of slain	O
And a hush of fear thro' the summer grove	V2
So clos'd the triumph of youth and love	L2
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III	M2
Gloomy lay the shore that night	R2
When the moon with sleeping light	R2
Bath'd each purple Sciote hill	F2
Gloomy lay the shore and still	F2
O'er the wave no gay guitar	W2
Sent its floating music far	W2
No glad sound of dancing feet	R2
Woke the starry hours to greet	R2
But a voice of mortal wo	F2
In its changes wild or low	F2
Thro' the midnight's blue repose	D
From the sea beat rocks arose	D
As Eudora's mother stood	R2
Gazing o'er th' Egean flood	R2
With a fix'd and straining eye	J
Oh was the spoilers' vessel nigh	J
Yes there becalm'd in silent sleep	Y
Dark and alone on a breathless deep	Y
On a sea of molten silver dark	X2
Brooding it frown'd that evil bark	X2
There its broad pennon a shadow cast	R2
Moveless and black from the tall still mast	R2
And the heavy sound of its flapping sail	F2
Idly and vainly wooed the gale	F2
Hush'd was all else Had ocean's breast	R2
Rock'd e'en Eudora that hour to rest	R2
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To rest the waves tremble what piercing cry	J
Bursts from the heart of the ship on high	J
What light through the heavens in a sudden spire	I2
Shoots from the deck up Fire 'tis fire	B2
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There are wild forms hurrying to and fro	F2
Seen darkly clear on that lurid glow	F2
There are shout and signal gun and call	F2
And the dashing of water but fruitless all	F2
Man may not fetter nor ocean tame	Y2
The might and wrath of the rushing flame	Y2
It hath twined the mast like a glittering snake	Z2
That coils up a tree from a dusky brake	Z2
It hath touch'd the sails and their canvass rolls	D
Away from its breath into shrivell'd scrolls	D
It	R2