Translations. - The Tryst. (from Schiller.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDEDEFF GHHH IJKJKJLL MNMN NHNHNHJJ HJHJ OJOJOJPP EQEQ QQQQQQRR STSTThat was the sound of the wicket | A |
That was the latch as it rose | B |
No the wind that through the thicket | C |
Of the poplars whirring goes | B |
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Put on thy beauty foliage vaulted roof | D |
Her to receive with silent welcome grace her | E |
Ye branches build a shadowy room eye proof | D |
With lovely night and stillness to embrace her | E |
Ye airs caressing wake nor keep aloof | D |
In sport and gambol turning still to face her | E |
As with its load of beauty lightly borne | F |
Glides in the fairy foot and dawns my morn | F |
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What is that rustling the hedges | G |
She with her hurrying pace | H |
No a bird among the sedges | H |
Startled from its hiding place | H |
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Quench thy sunk torch O Day Steal out appear | I |
Dim ghostly Night with dumbness us entrancing | J |
Spread thy rose purple veil about us here | K |
Weave round us twigs the mystery enhancing | J |
Love's rapture flees the lurking listening ear | K |
Flies from the Day so indiscreetly glancing | J |
Hesper alone no tattling tell tale he | L |
Far gazing still her confidant may be | L |
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That was a voice but far distant | M |
Faint like a whispering low | N |
No the swan that draws persistent | M |
Through the pond his circles slow | N |
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About mine ears harmonious breathings flow | N |
The fountain falls in sweetly wavering rushes | H |
The flower beneath the west wind's kiss bends slow | N |
Delight from each to every thing outgushes | H |
Grape clusters beckon peaches luring glow | N |
And hide half in their leaves up swelling luscious | H |
The air which aromatic odours streak | J |
Drinks up the glow upon my burning cheek | J |
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Hear I not echoing footfalls | H |
Hither adown the pleach'd walk | J |
No the over ripened fruit falls | H |
Heavy swollen from off its stalk | J |
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Day's flaming eye at last is quench d quite | O |
In gentle death its colours all are paling | J |
Now boldly open in the fair twilight | O |
The cups which in his blaze had long been quailing | J |
Slow lifts the moon her visage calmly bright | O |
Into great masses molten earth sinks failing | J |
From every charm the zone drops unaware | P |
And shrouded beauty dawns upon me bare | P |
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Yonder I see a white shimmer | E |
Silky of robe or of shawl | Q |
No it is the column's glimmer | E |
'Gainst the clipt yews' gloomy wall | Q |
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O longing heart no more thyself befool | Q |
Flouted by Fancy's loveliness unreal | Q |
The empty arm no burning heart will cool | Q |
No shadow joy hold place for Love's Ideal | Q |
O bring my live love all my heart to rule | Q |
Give me her hand to hold my every weal | Q |
Or but the shadow of her mantle's hem | R |
And straight my dreams shall live and I in them | R |
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And soft as from hills rosy golden | S |
The dews of still gladness descend | T |
So had she drawn nigh unbeholden | S |
And wakened with kisses her friend | T |
George Macdonald
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