O Let Me Dream The Dreams Of Long Ago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDEIJKLMN EIOPNQRSTU VWOXYZA2XFB2C2GD2E2W F2G2X FH2I2IWOAJ2K2DGL2M2N 2O2O2AO2P2N2O2N2 N2QQ2N2N2N2N2QWQN2R2 N2O2N2O2R N2S2N2T2O2N2R G2N2O2N2N2N2G2N2N2 N2N2N2WA2D2O2U2N2N2G 2O2V2N2O2W2N2O2Call me not back O cold and crafty world | A |
I scorn your thankless thanks and hollow praise | B |
Wiser than seer or scientist content | C |
To tread no paths beyond these bleating hills | D |
Here let me lie beneath this dear old elm | E |
Among the blossoms of the clover fields | F |
And listen to the humming of the bees | G |
Here in those far off happy boyhood years | H |
When all my world was bounded by these hills | D |
I dreamed my first dreams underneath this elm | E |
Dreamed Aye and builded castles in the clouds | I |
Dreamed and made glad a fond proud mother's heart | J |
Now moldering into clay on yonder hill | K |
Dreamed till my day dreams paved the world with gold | L |
Dreamed till my mad dreams made one desolate | M |
Dreamed O my soul and was it all a dream | N |
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As I lay dreaming under this old elm | E |
Building my castles in the sunny clouds | I |
Her soft eyes peeping from the copse of pine | O |
Looked tenderly on me and my glad heart leaped | P |
Following her footsteps O the dream the dream | N |
O fawn eyed lotus lipped white bosomed Flore | Q |
I hide my bronzed face in your golden hair | R |
Thou wilt not heed the dew drops on my beard | S |
Thou wilt not heed the wrinkles on my brow | T |
Thou wilt not chide me for my long delay | U |
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Here we stood heart to heart and eye to eye | V |
And I looked down into her inmost soul | W |
The while she drank my promise like sweet wine | O |
O let me dream the dreams of long ago | X |
Soft are the tender eyes of maiden love | Y |
Sweet are the dew drops of a dear girl's lips | Z |
When love's red roses blush in sudden bloom | A2 |
O let me dream the dreams of long ago | X |
Hum soft and low O bee bent clover fields | F |
Blink blue eyed violets from the dewy grass | B2 |
Break into bloom my golden dandelions | C2 |
Break into bloom my dear old apple trees | G |
I hear the robins cherup on the hedge | D2 |
I hear the warbling of the meadow larks | E2 |
I hear the silver fluted whippowil | W |
I hear the harps that moan among the pines | F2 |
Touched by the ghostly fingers of the dead | G2 |
Hush let me dream the dreams of long ago | X |
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And wherefore left I these fair flowery fields | F |
Where her fond eyes and ever gladsome voice | H2 |
Made all the year one joyous warbling June | I2 |
To chase my castles in the passing clouds | I |
False as the mirage of some Indian isle | W |
To shipwrecked sailors famished on the brine | O |
Wherefore Look out upon the babbling world | A |
Fools clamoring at the heels of clamorous fools | J2 |
I hungered for the sapless husks of fame | K2 |
Dreaming I saw beyond my native hills | D |
The sunshine shimmer on the laurel trees | G |
Ah tenderly plead her fond eyes brimmed with tears | L2 |
But lightly laughing at her fears I turned | M2 |
Eager to clutch my crown of laurel leaves | N2 |
Strong souled and bold to front all winds of heaven | O2 |
A lamb and lion molded into one | O2 |
And burst away to tread the hollow world | A |
Ah nut brown boys that tend the lowing kine | O2 |
Ah blithesome plowmen whistling on the glebe | P2 |
Ah merry mowers singing in the swaths | N2 |
Sweet simple souls contented not to know | O2 |
Wiser are ye and ye may teach the wise | N2 |
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Years trode upon the heels of flying years | N2 |
And still my Ignis Fatuus flew before | Q |
On thorny paths my eager feet pursued | Q2 |
Till she whose fond heart doted on my dreams | N2 |
Passed painless to the pure eternal peace | N2 |
Years trode upon the heels of flying years | N2 |
And touched my brown beard with their silver wands | N2 |
And still my Ignis Fatuus flew before | Q |
Through thorns and mire my torn feet followed still | W |
Till she my darling unforgotten Flore | Q |
Nursing her one hope all those weary years | N2 |
Waiting my tardy coming drooped and died | R2 |
I hear her low sweet voice among the pines | N2 |
O let me dream the dreams of long ago | O2 |
I see her fond eyes peeping from the pines | N2 |
O let me dream the dreams of long ago | O2 |
And hide my bronzed face in her golden hair | R |
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Is this the Indian summer of my days | N2 |
Wealth without care and love without desire | S2 |
O misty cheerless moon of falling leaves | N2 |
Is this the fruitage promised by the spring | T2 |
O blighted clusters withering on the vine | O2 |
O promised lips of love to one who dreams | N2 |
And wakens holding but the hollow air | R |
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Let me dream on lest dead unto my dead | G2 |
False to the true and true unto the false | N2 |
Maddened by thoughts of that which might have been | O2 |
And weary of the chains of that which is | N2 |
I slake my heart thirst at forbidden springs | N2 |
I hear the voices of the moaning pines | N2 |
I hear the low hushed whispers of the dead | G2 |
And one wan face looks in upon my dreams | N2 |
And wounds me with her sad imploring eyes | N2 |
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The dead sun sinks beyond the misty hills | N2 |
The chill winds whistle in the leafless elms | N2 |
The cold rain patters on the fallen leaves | N2 |
Where pipes the silver fluted whippowil | W |
I hear no hum of bees among the bloom | A2 |
I hear no robin cherup on the hedge | D2 |
One dumb lone lark sits shivering in the rain | O2 |
I hear the voices of the Autumn wind | U2 |
I hear the cold rain dripping on the leaves | N2 |
I hear the moaning of the mournful pines | N2 |
I hear the hollow voices of the dead | G2 |
O let me dream the dreams of long ago | O2 |
And dreaming pass into the dreamless sleep | V2 |
Beyond the voices of the autumn winds | N2 |
Beyond the patter of the dreary rain | O2 |
Beyond compassion and all vain regret | W2 |
Beyond all waking and all weariness | N2 |
O let me dream the dreams of long ago | O2 |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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