Lines On The Death Of Henry Kirke White, Late Of St. John's College, Cambridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDBEEFFFFGHIIJJ BBEEKLMMBBNOPPKKQQRR S| Sorrows are mine then let me joys evade | A |
| And seek for sympathies in this lone shade | A |
| The glooms of death fall heavy on my heart | B |
| And between life and me a truce impart | B |
| Genius has vanish'd in its opening bloom | C |
| And youth and beauty wither in the tomb | C |
| Thought ever prompt to lend the inquiring eye | D |
| Pursues thy spirit through futurity | B |
| Does thy aspiring mind new powers essay | E |
| Or in suspended being wait the day | E |
| When earth shall fall before the awful train | F |
| Of Heaven and Virtue's everlasting reign | F |
| May goodness which thy heart did once enthrone | F |
| Emit one ray to meliorate my own | F |
| And for thy sake when time affliction calm | G |
| Science shall please and poesie shall charm | H |
| I turn my steps whence issued all my woes | I |
| Where the dull courts monastic glooms impose | I |
| Thence fled a spirit whose unbounded scope | J |
| Surpass'd the fond creations e'en of hope | J |
| Along this path thy living step has fled | B |
| Along this path they bore thee to the dead | B |
| All that this languid eye can now survey | E |
| Witnessed the vigour of thy fleeting day | E |
| And witness'd all as speaks this anguish'd tear | K |
| The solemn progress of thy early bier | L |
| Sacred the walls that took thy parting breath | M |
| Own'd thee in life encompass'd thee in death | M |
| Oh I can feel as felt the sorrowing friend | B |
| Who o'er thy corse in agony did bend | B |
| Dead as thyself to all the world inspires | N |
| Paid the last rites mortality requires | O |
| Closed the dim eye that beam'd with mind before | P |
| Composed the icy limbs to move no more | P |
| Some power the picture from my memory tear | K |
| Or feeling will rush onward to despair | K |
| Immortal hopes come lend your blest relief | Q |
| And raise the soul bow'd down with mortal grief | Q |
| Teach it to look for comfort in the skies | R |
| Earth cannot give what Heaven's high will denies | R |
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| Cambridge Nov | S |
Henry Kirk White
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