To A Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFEFGG HIJIKLKLMM NJNENONOPP MNMNQRQRSS| Suggested By Hearing Her Voice During Services At Church | A |
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| At night in visions when my soul drew near | B |
| The shadowy confines of the spirit land | C |
| Wild wondrous notes of song have met my ear | D |
| Wrung from their harps by many a seraph's hand | C |
| And forms of light too more divinely fair | E |
| Than Mercy's messenger to hearts that mourn | F |
| On wings that made sweet music in the air | E |
| Have round me in those hours of bliss been borne | F |
| And filled with joy unutterable I | G |
| Have deemed myself a born child of the sky | G |
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| And often too at sunset's magic hour | H |
| When musing by some solitary stream | I |
| While thought awoke in its resistless pow'r | J |
| And restless Fancy wove her brightest dream | I |
| Mysterious tongues that were not of the earth | K |
| Have whispered words which I may not repeat | L |
| But Thought or Fancy ne'er have given birth | K |
| To form and voice like thine so fair and sweet | L |
| Nor have I found them when my spirit's flight | M |
| Had borne me to the far shores of delight | M |
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| Above the murmurs of an hundred lips | N |
| They rose those silvery tones of praise and pray'r | J |
| Soft as the light breeze when Aurora trips | N |
| The earth and lighting up the darkened air | E |
| Carols her greetings to the waking flow'rs | N |
| They fell upon my heart like summer rain | O |
| Upon the thirsting fields and earlier hours | N |
| When I too breathed th' adoring pray'r and strain | O |
| Came back once more the present was beguiled | P |
| Of half its gloom and my worn spirit smiled | P |
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| Pray lady that the sad soul searing blight | M |
| Which comes upon us when we tread the ways | N |
| Of sin may not be suffered to alight | M |
| On thy pure spirit in its youthful days | N |
| Or like the fruitage of the Dead Sea shore | Q |
| Tho' outward bloom and freshness thou may'st be | R |
| Stern bitterness and death will gnaw thy core | Q |
| And thou wilt be a heart scathed thing like me | R |
| Bearing the weight of many years ere thou | S |
| Hast lost youth's rosy cheek and lineless brow | S |
George W. Sands
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