Poet Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

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Inscription Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCCDDEFFCGGCCCCH CHCC CCCCIJIKDLLDKKMKNKNC

When the last stir of bubbling melodiesA
Broke as my chants sank underneath the waveB
Of dulcitude but sank again to riseC
Where man's embaying mind those waters laveB
For music hath its OceanidesC
Flexuously floating through their parent seasC
And such are theseC
I saw a vision or may it beD
The effluence of a dear desired realityD
I saw two spirits highE
Two spirits dim within the silver smokeF
Which is for ever wokeF
By snowing lights of fountained PoesyC
Two shapes they were familiar as loveG
They were those souls whereofG
One twines from finest gracious daily thingsC
Strong constant noticeless as are heart stringsC
The golden cage wherein this song bird singsC
And the other's sun gives hue to all my flowersC
Which else pale flowers of Tartarus would growH
Where ghosts watch ghosts of blooms in ghostly bowersC
For we do knowH
The hidden player by his harmoniesC
And by my thoughts I know what still hands thrill the keysC
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And to these twain as from the mind's abyssesC
All thoughts draw toward the awakening heart's sweet kissesC
With proffer of their wreathen fantasiesC
Even so to theseC
I saw how many brought their garlands fairI
Whether of song or simple love they wereJ
Of simple love that makes best garlands fairI
But one I marked who lingered still behindK
As for such souls no seemly gift had heD
He was not of their strainL
Nor worthy of so bright beings to entertainL
Nor fit compeer for such high companyD
Yet was he surely born to them in mindK
Their youngest nursling of the spirit's kindK
Last stole this oneM
With timid glance of watching eyes adreadK
And dropped his frightened flower when all were goneN
And where the frail flower fell it witheredK
But yet methought those high souls smiled thereonN
As when a child upstraining at your kneesC
Some fond and fancied nothings says 'I give you these '-

Francis Thompson



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