Henry Timrod

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Flower-life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDB EEFDDDF GGHIIIH BBGJJJG KKLMMML DDNOOON IIJPPPJ

I think that next to your sweet eyesA
And pleasant books and starry skiesA
I love the world of flowersB
Less for their beauty of a dayC
Than for the tender things they sayC
And for a creed I've held alwayD
That they are sentient powersB
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It may be matter for a smileE
And I laugh secretly the whileE
I speak the fancy outF
But that they love and that they wooD
And that they often marry tooD
And do as noisier creatures doD
I've not the faintest doubtF
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And so I cannot deem it rightG
To take them from the glad sunlightG
As I have sometimes daredH
Though not without an anxious sighI
Lest this should break some gentle tieI
Some covenant of friendship II
Had better far have sparedH
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And when in wild or thoughtless hoursB
My hand hath crushed the tiniest flowersB
I ne'er could shut from sightG
The corpses of the tender thingsJ
With other drear imaginingsJ
And little angel flowers with wingsJ
Would haunt me through the nightG
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Oh say you friend the creed is fraughtK
With sad and even with painful thoughtK
Nor could you bear to knowL
That such capacities belongM
To creatures helpless against wrongM
At once too weak to fly the strongM
Or front the feeblest foeL
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So be it always then with youD
So be it whether false or trueD
I press my faith on noneN
If other fancies please you moreO
The flowers shall blossom as beforeO
Dear as the Sibyl leaves of yoreO
But senseless every oneN
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Yet though I give you no replyI
It were not hard to justifyI
My creed to partial earsJ
But conscious of the cruel partP
My rhymes would flow with faltering artP
I could not plead against your heartP
Nor reason with your tearsJ

Henry Timrod



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