To A Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFEFGG HIJIKLKLMM NJNENONOPP MNMNQRQRSS

Suggested By Hearing Her Voice During Services At ChurchA
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At night in visions when my soul drew nearB
The shadowy confines of the spirit landC
Wild wondrous notes of song have met my earD
Wrung from their harps by many a seraph's handC
And forms of light too more divinely fairE
Than Mercy's messenger to hearts that mournF
On wings that made sweet music in the airE
Have round me in those hours of bliss been borneF
And filled with joy unutterable IG
Have deemed myself a born child of the skyG
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And often too at sunset's magic hourH
When musing by some solitary streamI
While thought awoke in its resistless pow'rJ
And restless Fancy wove her brightest dreamI
Mysterious tongues that were not of the earthK
Have whispered words which I may not repeatL
But Thought or Fancy ne'er have given birthK
To form and voice like thine so fair and sweetL
Nor have I found them when my spirit's flightM
Had borne me to the far shores of delightM
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Above the murmurs of an hundred lipsN
They rose those silvery tones of praise and pray'rJ
Soft as the light breeze when Aurora tripsN
The earth and lighting up the darkened airE
Carols her greetings to the waking flow'rsN
They fell upon my heart like summer rainO
Upon the thirsting fields and earlier hoursN
When I too breathed th' adoring pray'r and strainO
Came back once more the present was beguiledP
Of half its gloom and my worn spirit smiledP
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Pray lady that the sad soul searing blightM
Which comes upon us when we tread the waysN
Of sin may not be suffered to alightM
On thy pure spirit in its youthful daysN
Or like the fruitage of the Dead Sea shoreQ
Tho' outward bloom and freshness thou may'st beR
Stern bitterness and death will gnaw thy coreQ
And thou wilt be a heart scathed thing like meR
Bearing the weight of many years ere thouS
Hast lost youth's rosy cheek and lineless browS

George W. Sands



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