George W. Sands

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Love And Fancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD EFEF CGCG HIHI CJCJ KLML KNKN OJOJ PQPQ RSRS JTQT JUJU VWVW XYXZ LKQK

Whenever amid bow'rs of myrtleA
Love summer tressed and vernal eyedB
At morn or eve is seen to wanderC
A dark haired girl is at his sideB
De La HogueD
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One morn just as day in the far east was breakingE
Young Love who all night had been roving aboutF
A charming siesta was quietly takingE
His strength by his rambles completely worn outF
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Round his brow a wreath woven of every flowerC
That springs from the hillside or valley was boundG
In his hand was a rose he had stol'n from some bowerC
While his bow and his quiver lay near on the groundG
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Wild Fancy just came from her kingdom of dreamsH
The breath of the opening day to enjoyI
And to catch the warm kiss of its first golden beamsH
On her cheek caught a glimpse of the slumbering boyI
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With a light noiseless step she drew near to the sleeperC
And gazed till her snowy breast heaved a soft sighJ
Then she bade sleep's dull god bring a sounder and deeperC
And heavier trance for Love's beautiful eyeJ
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Then back to her shadowy kingdom she flowK
And called up the bright mystic forms she has thereL
And filling an urn from a fountain of dewM
She bade them all straight to Love's couch side repairL
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They came and stood round as her hand o'er his pillowK
From a chalice of pearl poured its magical streamN
While his red rosy lips that now sighed like a billowK
At play with the breeze told how sweet was his dreamN
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He dreamed that he sat on a shining throne wroughtO
Of the purest of gold that the earth could supplyJ
While a trio of beautiful maids who each broughtO
A gift for his shrine in succession past byJ
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First Fame with the step and the glance of a queenP
Came up and before him bent down her proud kneeQ
And held up a garland whereon played the sheenP
Of the beams which insure immortalityQ
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Next Wealth the stern mistress of men for whose smileR
They toil like the galley slave brought in her handS
The fair gems of many an ocean isleR
And the diamonds of many a far off landS
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And Beauty came too with her blue laughing eyeJ
Her fair flowing locks and her soft rosy cheekT
And red lips whose sweet smile told silentlyQ
The tale which they seemed ashamed to speakT
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'Neath the shade of a palm branch a fourth one stood byJ
With locks like in hue to the tresses of NightU
With a pale pensive brow and a dark dreamy eyeJ
Where the soul of sweet softness lay gleaming in lightU
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It was Fancy Love gazed and his eager eye shoneV
With a lustre of feeling deep fervent and sweetW
And he thought it were better to give up his throneV
For a place on his knees at the coy maiden's feetW
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And from that bright hour through calm and through stormX
Through the sunlight of summer and winter's dark reignY
These twain have been bound by ties tender and warmX
Which ne'er through all time shall be severed againZ
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And ever where Love weaves his fond witcheryL
Will Fancy the aid of her brightness bestowK
And give the loved object whatever it beQ
A purer a dearer a heavenlier glowK

George W. Sands



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