Mazelli: Canto I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEEFGHHIIJJKLKLMM NOPOAAQQRRLLSSTTKK A UUVVAKWWMMXXYYZZA2A2 B2B2C2C2D2E2QD2F2F2V VG2G2H2H2I2I2J2K2L2L 2KK A M2KKM2F2F2HHN2O2N2O2 JJP2P2Q2Q2 W UULLR2R2JJS2S2OOT2U2 V2V2W2W2X2X2Y2Y2J2Z2 J2Z2Z2Z2AKUA3UA3B3B3 JJ K DWCWC3Z2C3Z2GGZ2Z2D3 E3D3F3D2D2TTKK A F2I2I2F2F2G3G3T2T2G3 H3H3H3H3H3H3Z2Z2KKZ2 Z2UATA A Z2Z2H3H3Z2Z2W2W2W2AK Z2Z2KKAAZ2Z2I3I3AKZ2 Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2J3TAKU2U2Z 2T2Z2T2H3H3AAZ2Z2ZZH 3H3K3K3 A L3H3H3L3H3H3M3M3H3H3 AAG3G3AKH3H3P2P2N3J2 Z2Z2T2T2H3H3H3H3DCAZ 2ZZO3O3 Z2 P3P3OOH3H3Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2 Z2H3H3H3H3H3H3Z2Z2H3 H3H3H3U2U2TTHH3CH3HH TTZ2Z2 Z2 H3W2H3W2Q3H3Q3H3R3R3 P2P2Z2Z2C3ZC3ZH3H3H3 H3Z2Z2R3R3H3H3DDHHR3 R3AHH3H3 Z2 H3Z2Z2H3Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2HH A2A2Z2H3Z2H3S3AS3Z2H HZ2Z2AAT3T3Z2Z2 Z2 N2N2H3AAN2H3C3C3H3H3 HHH3H3H3H3H3H3N2N2

I	A
	-
Stay traveller stay thy weary steed	B
The sultry hour of noon is near	C
Of rest thy way worn limbs have need	B
Stay then and taste its sweetness here	D
The mountain path which thou hast sped	E
Is steep and difficult to tread	E
And many a farther step 'twill cost	F
Ere thou wilt find another host	G
But if thou scorn'st not humble fare	H
Such as the pilgrim loves to share	H
Not luxury's enfeebling spoil	I
But bread secured by patient toil	I
Then lend thine ear to my request	J
And be the old man's welcome guest	J
Thou seest yon aged willow tree	K
In all its summer pomp arrayed	L
'Tis near wend thither then with me	K
My cot is built beneath its shade	L
And from its roots clear waters burst	M
To cool thy lip and quench thy thirst	M
I love it and if harm should come	N
To it I think that I should weep	O
'Tis as a guardian of my home	P
So faithfully it seems to keep	O
Its watch above the spot where I	A
Have lived so long and mean to die	A
Come pardon me for prating thus	Q
But age you know is garrulous	Q
And in life's dim decline we hold	R
Thrice dear whate'er we loved of old	R
The stream upon whose banks we played	L
The forest through whose shades we strayed	L
The spot to which from sober truth	S
We stole to dream the dreams of youth	S
The single star of all Night's zone	T
Which we have chosen as our own	T
Each has its haunting memory	K
Of things which never more may be	K
	-
II	A
	-
Thus spake an aged man to one	U
Who manhood's race had just begun	U
His form of manhood's noblest length	V
Was strung with manhood's stoutest strength	V
And burned within his eagle eye	A
The blaze of tameless energy	K
Not tameless but untamed for life	W
Soon breaks the spirit with its strife	W
And they who in their souls have nursed	M
The brightest visions are the first	M
To learn how Disappointment's blight	X
Strips life of its illusive light	X
How dreams the heart has dearest held	Y
Are ever first to be dispelled	Y
How hope and power and love and fame	Z
Are each an idly sounding name	Z
A phantom a deceit a wile	A2
That woos and dazzles to beguile	A2
But time had not yet tutored him	B2
The youth of hardy heart and limb	B2
Who quickly drew his courser's bit	C2
For though too haughty to submit	C2
In strife for mastery with men	D2
Yet to a prayer or a caress	E2
His soul became all gentleness	Q
An infant's hand might lead him then	D2
So answered he In sooth the way	F2
My steed and I have passed to day	F2
Is of such weary winding length	V
As sorely to have tried our strength	V
And I will bless the bread and salt	G2
Of him who kindly bids me halt	G2
Then springing lightly to the ground	H2
His girth and saddle he unbound	H2
And turning from the path aside	I2
The steed and guest the host and guide	I2
Sought where the old man's friendly door	J2
Stood ever open to the poor	K2
The poor for seldom came the great	L2
Or rich the apers of their state	L2
That simple rude abode to see	K
Or claim its hospitality	K
	-
III	A
	-
From where the hermit's cottage stood	M2
Beneath its huge old guardian tree	K
The gazer's wand'ring eye might see	K
Where in its maze of field and wood	M2
And stretching many a league away	F2
A broad and smiling valley lay	F2
Lay stilly calm and sweetly fair	H
As if Death had not entered there	H
As if its flowers so bright of bloom	N2
Its birds so gay of song and wing	O2
Would never lose their soft perfume	N2
Would never never cease to sing	O2
Fat flocks were in its glens at rest	J
Pure waters wandered o'er its breast	J
The sky was clear the winds were still	P2
Rich harvests grew on every hill	P2
The sun in mid day glory smiled	Q2
And nature slumbered as a child	Q2
	-
IV	W
	-
And now their rustic banquet done	U
And sheltered from the noontide sun	U
By the old willow's pleasant shade	L
The guest and host the scene surveyed	L
Marked how the mountain's mighty base	R2
The valley's course was seen to trace	R2
Marked how its graceful azure crest	J
Against the sky's blue arch was pressed	J
And how its long and rocky chain	S2
Was parted suddenly in twain	S2
Where through a chasm wide and deep	O
Potomac's rapid waters sweep	O
While rocks that press the mountain's brow	T2
Nod o'er his waves far far below	U2
Marked how those waves in one broad blaze	V2
Threw back the sun's meridian rays	V2
And flashing as they rolled along	W2
Seemed all alive with light and song	W2
Marked how green bower and garden showed	X2
Where rose the husbandman's abode	X2
And how the village walls were seen	Y2
To glimmer with a silvery sheen	Y2
Such as the Spaniard saw of yore	J2
Hang over Tenuchtitlan's walls	Z2
When maddened with the lust of gore	J2
He came to desecrate her halls	Z2
To fire her temples towers and thrones	Z2
And turn her songs of peace to groans	Z2
They gazed till from the hermit's eye	A
A tear stole slow and silently	K
A tear which Memory's hand had taken	U
From a deep fountain long congealed	A3
A tear which showed how strongly shaken	U
The heart must be which thus revealed	A3
Through time's dim shadows gathering fast	B3
Its recollections of the past	B3
Then as a sigh escaped his breast	J
Thus spake the hermit to his guest	J
	-
V	K
	-
Thou seest how fair a scene is here	D
It seems as if 'twere planned above	W
And fashioned from some happier sphere	C
To be the home of peace and love	W
Yet man too fond of strife to dwell	C3
In meek contentment's calm repose	Z2
Will turn an Eden to a hell	C3
And triumph in his brother's woes	Z2
And passion's lewd and lawless host	G
Delight to rave and revel most	G
Where generous Nature stamps and strews	Z2
Her fairest forms and brightest hues	Z2
And Discord here has lit her brand	D3
And Hatred nursed her savage brood	E3
And stern Revenge with crimson hand	D3
Has written his foul deeds in blood	F3
But those who loved and suffered then	D2
Have given place to other men	D2
Of all who live to me alone	T
The story of their fate is known	T
Give heed and I will tell it thee	K
Tho' mournful must the story be	K
	-
VI	A
	-
I mind as if 'twere yesterday	F2
The hour when first I stood beside	I2
The margin of yon rushing tide	I2
And watched its wild waves in their play	F2
These locks that now are thin and gray	F2
Then clustered thick and dark as thine	G3
And few had strength of arm like mine	G3
Thou seest how many a furrow now	T2
Time's hand hath ploughed athwart my brow	T2
Well then it was without a line	G3
And I had other treasures too	H3
Of which 'tis useless now to vaunt	H3
Friends who were kind and warm and true	H3
A heart that danger could not daunt	H3
A soul with wild dreams wildly stirred	H3
And hope that had not been deferred	H3
I cannot count how many years	Z2
Have since gone by but toil and tears	Z2
And the lone heart's deep agony	K
I feel have sadly altered me	K
Yet mourn I not the change for those	Z2
I loved or scorned my friends or foes	Z2
Have fallen and faded one by one	U
As time's swift current hurried by	A
Till I of all my kith alone	T
Am left to wait and wish to die	A
	-
VII	A
	-
How strong a hand hath Time Man rears	Z2
And names his work immortal years	Z2
Go by Behold where dwelt his pride	H3
Stern Desolation's brood abide	H3
The owl within his bower sits	Z2
The lone bat through his chamber flits	Z2
Where bounded by the buoyant throng	W2
With measured step and choral song	W2
The wily serpent winds along	W2
While the Destroyer stalketh by	A
And smiles as if in mockery	K
How strong a band hath Time Love weaves	Z2
His wreath of flowers and myrtle leaves	Z2
Methinks his fittest crown would be	K
A chaplet from the cypress tree	K
With hope his breast is swelling high	A
And brightly beams his laughing eye	A
But soon his hopes are mixed with fears	Z2
And soon his smiles are quenched in tears	Z2
Then Disappointment's blighting breath	I3
Breathes o'er him and he droops to death	I3
While the Destroyer glideth by	A
And smiles as if in mockery	K
How strong a hand hath Time Fame wins	Z2
The eager youth to her embrace	Z2
With tameless ardour he begins	Z2
And follows up the bootless race	Z2
Ah bootless for as on he hies	Z2
With equal speed the phantom flies	Z2
Till youth and strength and vigour gone	J3
He faints and sinks and dies unknown	T
While the Destroyer passeth by	A
And smiles as if in mockery	K
Gaze stranger on the scene below	U2
'Tis scarce a century ago	U2
Since here abode another race	Z2
The men of tomahawk and bow	T2
The savage sons of war and chase	Z2
Yet where ah where abide they now	T2
Go search and see if thou canst find	H3
One trace which they have left behind	H3
A single mound or mossy grave	A
That holds the ashes of the brave	A
A single lettered stone to say	Z2
That they have lived and passed away	Z2
Men soon will cease to name their name	Z
Oblivion soon will quench their fame	Z
And the wild story of their fate	H3
Will yet be subject of debate	H3
'Twixt antiquarians sage and able	K3
Who doubt if it be truth or fable	K3
	-
VIII	A
	-
I said I minded well the time	L3
When first beside yon stream I stood	H3
Then one interminable wood	H3
In its unbounded breadth sublime	L3
And in its loneliness profound	H3
Spread like a leafy sea around	H3
To one of foreign land and birth	M3
Nursed 'mid the loveliest scenes of earth	M3
But now from home and friends exiled	H3
Such wilderness were doubly wild	H3
I thought it so and scarce could I	A
My tears repress when standing by	A
The river's brink I thought of mine	G3
Own native stream the glorious Rhine	G3
For near to it with loving eye	A
My mother watched my infancy	K
Along its banks my childhood strayed	H3
With its strong waves my boyhood played	H3
And I could see in memory still	P2
My father's cottage on the hill	P2
With green vines trailing round and o'er	N3
Wall roof and casement porch and door	J2
Yet soon I learned yon stream to bless	Z2
And love the wooded wilderness	Z2
I could not then have told thee how	T2
The change came o'er my heart but now	T2
I know full well the charm that wrought	H3
Into my soul the spell of thought	H3
Of tender pensive thought which made	H3
Me love the forest's deepest shade	H3
And listen with delighted ear	D
To the low voice of waters near	C
As gliding gushing gurgling by	A
They utter their sweet minstrelsy	Z2
I scarce need give that charm a name	Z
Thy heart I know hath felt the same	Z
Ah where is mind or heart or soul	O3
That has not bowed to its control	O3
	-
IX	Z2
	-
See where yon towering rocky ledge	P3
Hangs jutting o'er the river's edge	P3
There channelled dark and dull and deep	O
The lazy lagging waters sleep	O
Thence follow with thine eagle sight	H3
A double stone's cast to the right	H3
Mark where a white walled cottage stands	Z2
Devised and reared by cunning hands	Z2
A stately pile and fair to see	Z2
The chisel's touch and pencil's trace	Z2
Have blent for it a goodly grace	Z2
And yet it much less pleaseth me	Z2
Than did the simple rustic cot	H3
Which occupied of yore that spot	H3
For 'neath its humble shelter grew	H3
The fairest flower that e'er drank dew	H3
A lone exotic of the wood	H3
The fairy of the solitude	H3
Who dwelt amid its loneliness	Z2
To brighten beautify and bless	Z2
The summer sky's serenest blue	H3
Would best portray her eye's soft hue	H3
From her white brow were backward rolled	H3
Long curls of mingled light and gold	H3
The flush upon her cheek of snow	U2
Had shamed the rose's harsher glow	U2
And haughty love had haughtier grown	T
To own her breast his fairest throne	T
The eye that once behold her ne'er	H
Could lose her image firm and bright	H3
All beautiful and pure and clear	C
'Twas stamped upon th' enamoured sight	H3
Unchangeable for ever fair	H
Above decay it lingered there	H
As it has lingered on mine own	T
These many years till it has grown	T
In its mysterious strength to be	Z2
A portion of my soul and me	Z2
	-
X	Z2
	-
Not in the peopled solitude	H3
Of cities does true love belong	W2
For it is of A thoughtful mood	H3
And thought abides not with the throng	W2
Nor is it won by glittering wealth	Q3
By cunning nor device of art	H3
Unheralded by silent stealth	Q3
It wins its way into the heart	H3
And once the soul has known its dream	R3
Thenceforth its empire is supreme	R3
For heart and brain and soul and will	P2
Are bowed by its subduing thrill	P2
My love alas not born to bless	Z2
Had birth in nature's loneliness	Z2
And held at first as a sweet spell	C3
It grew in strength till it became	Z
A spirit which I could not quell	C3
A quenchless a volcanic flame	Z
Which without pause or time of rest	H3
Must burn for ever in my breast	H3
Yet how ecstatically sweet	H3
Was its first soft tumultuous beat	H3
I little thought that beat could be	Z2
The harbinger of misery	Z2
And daily when the morning beam	R3
Dawned earliest on wood and stream	R3
When from each brake and bush were heard	H3
The hum of bee and chirp of bird	H3
From these earth's matin songs my ear	D
Would turn a sweeter voice to hear	D
A voice whose tones the very air	H
Seemed trembling with delight to bear	H
From leafy wood and misty stream	R3
From bush and brake and morning beam	R3
Would turn away my wandering eye	A
A dearer object to descry	H
Till voice so sweet and form so bright	H3
Grew part of hearing and of sight	H3
	-
X	Z2
	-
Yet my fond love I never told	H3
But kept it as the miser keeps	Z2
In his rude hut his hoarded heaps	Z2
Of gleaming gems and glittering gold	H3
Gloating in secret o'er the prize	Z2
He fears to show to other eyes	Z2
And so passed many months away	Z2
Till once I heard a comrade say	Z2
To morrow brings her bridal day	Z2
Mazelli leaves the greenwood bower	H
Where she has grown its fairest flower	H
To bless with her bright sunny smile	A2
A stranger from a distant isle	A2
Whom love has lured across the sea	Z2
O'er hill and glen through wood and wild	H3
Far from his lordly home to be	Z2
Lord of the forest's fairest child	H3
It was as when a thunder peal	S3
Bursts crashing from a cloudless sky	A
It caused my brain and heart to reel	S3
And throb with speechless agony	Z2
Yet when wild Passion's trance was o'er	H
And Thought resumed her sway once more	H
I breathed a prayer that she might be	Z2
Saved from the pangs that tortured me	Z2
That her young heart might never prove	A
The sting of unrequited love	A
My task I then again began	T3
But ah how much an altered man	T3
A single hour a few hot tears	Z2
Had done the wasting work of years	Z2
	-
XII	Z2
	-
Nor was it I alone to whom	N2
Those words had been as words of doom	N2
By some malicious fiend rehearsed	H3
Another one was standing by	A
With princely port and piercing eye	A
Of dusky cheek and brow and plume	N2
I thought his heaving heart would burst	H3
His labouring bosom's heave and swell	C3
So strongly quickly rose and fell	C3
A long bright blade hung at his side	H3
Its keen and glittering edge he tried	H3
He bore a bow and this he drew	H
To see if still its spring were true	H
But other sign could none be caught	H3
Of what he suffered felt or thought	H3
And then with firm and haughty stride	H3
He turned away and left my side	H3
I watched him as with rapid tread	H3
Along the river's marge he sped	H3
Till the still twilight's gathering gloom	N2
Hid haughty form and waving plume	N2

George W. Sands

Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme

Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation

<< Love And Fancy Poem Mazelli: Canto Ii Poem>>

Write your comment about Mazelli: Canto I poem by George W. Sands

Best Poems of George W. Sands

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 2 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)