Poet James Henry Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt

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To A Child During Sickness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCD DEDEFDFD DGDGDHDH IJIJKLKL MNMOPKPK QRQRSTST

boyA
And balmy rest about theeB
Smooths off the day's annoyA
I sit me down and thinkC
Of all thy winning waysD
Yet almost wish with sudden shrinkC
That I had less to praiseD
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Thy sidelong pillowed meeknessD
Thy thanks to all that aidE
Thy heart in pain and weaknessD
Of fancied faults afraidE
The little trembling handF
That wipes thy quiet tearsD
These these are things that may demandF
Dread memories for yearsD
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Sorrows I 've had severe onesD
I will not think of nowG
And calmly midst my dear onesD
Have wasted with dry browG
But when thy fingers pressD
And pat my stooping headH
I cannot bear the gentlenessD
The tears are in their bedH
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Ah first born of thy motherI
When life and hope were newJ
Kind playmate of thy brotherI
Thy sister father tooJ
My light where'er I goK
My bird when prison boundL
My hand in hand companion NoK
My prayers shall hold thee roundL
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To say He has departedM
His voice his face is goneN
To feel impatient heartedM
Yet feel we must bear onO
Ah I could not endureP
To whisper of such woeK
Unless I felt this sleep insureP
That it will not be soK
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Yes still he 's fixed and sleepingQ
This silence too the whileR
Its very hush and creepingQ
Seem whispering us a smileR
Something divine and dimS
Seems going by one's earT
Like parting wings of cherubimS
Who say We 've finished hereT

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