On à?olus's Harp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDDD EFEF GDGD HIHI DJDJ| Ethereal race inhabitants of air | A |
| Who hymn your god amid the secret grove | B |
| Ye unseen beings to my harp repair | A |
| And raise majestic strains or melt in love | C |
| - | |
| Those tender notes how kindly they upraid | D |
| With what soft woe they thrill the lover's heart | D |
| Sure from the hand of some unhappy maid | D |
| Who died for love these sweet complainings part | D |
| - | |
| But hark that strain was of a graver tone | E |
| On the deep strings his hand some hermit throws | F |
| Or he the sacred Bard who sat alone | E |
| In the drear waste and wept his people's woes | F |
| - | |
| Such was the song which Zion's children sung | G |
| When by Euphrates' stream they made their plaint | D |
| And to such sadly solemn notes are strung | G |
| Angelic harps to soothe a dying saint | D |
| - | |
| Methinks I hear the full celestial choir | H |
| Through Heaven's high dome their awful anthem raise | I |
| Now chanting clear and now they all conspire | H |
| To swell the lofty hymn from praise to praise | I |
| - | |
| Let me ye wandering spirits of the wind | D |
| Who as wild fancy prompts you touch the string | J |
| Smit with your theme be in your chorus joined | D |
| For till you cease my Muse forgets to sing | J |
James Thomson
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about On à?olus's Harp poem by James Thomson
Best Poems of James Thomson