Upon The Priory Grove, His Usual Retirement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKL MNOPIIQQRRSSMTUU| Hail sacred shades cool leavy House | A |
| Chaste treasurer of all my vows | B |
| And wealth on whose soft bosom laid | C |
| My love's fair steps I first betrayed | C |
| Henceforth no melancholy flight | D |
| No sad wing or hoarse bird of night | D |
| Disturb this air no fatal throat | E |
| Of raven or owl awake the note | E |
| Of our laid echo no voice dwell | F |
| Within these leaves but Philomel | F |
| The poisonous ivy here no more | G |
| His false twists on the oak shall score | G |
| Only the woodbine here may twine | H |
| As th'emblem of her love and mine | H |
| Th'amorous sun shall here convey | I |
| His best beams in thy shades to play | I |
| The active air the gentlest showers | J |
| Shall from his wings rain on thy flowers | J |
| And the moon from her dewy locks | K |
| Shall deck thee with her brightest drops | L |
| What ever can a fancy move | M |
| Or feed the eye be on this Grove | N |
| And when at last the winds and tears | O |
| Of Heaven with the consuming years | P |
| Shall these green curls bring to decay | I |
| And clothe thee in an aged gray | I |
| If ought a lover can foresee | Q |
| Or if we poets prophets be | Q |
| From hence transplant'd thou shalt stand | R |
| A fresh Grove in th'Elysian land | R |
| Where most blest pair as here on earth | S |
| Thou first didst eye our growth and birth | S |
| So there again thou'lt see us move | M |
| In our first innocence and love | T |
| And in thy shades as now so then | U |
| We'll kiss and smile and walk again | U |
Henry Vaughan
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