To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMMIINNOOPPQQRRBBGG MSTTUUVVWWXENY| THOU whose diviner soul hath caused thee now | A |
| To put thy hand unto the holy plough | A |
| Making lay scornings of the ministry | B |
| Not an impediment but victory | B |
| What bring'st thou home with thee how is thy mind | C |
| Affected since the vintage Dost thou find | C |
| New thoughts and stirrings in thee and as steel | D |
| Touch'd with a loadstone dost new motions feel | D |
| Or as a ship after much pain and care | E |
| For iron and cloth brings home rich Indian ware | E |
| Hast thou thus traffick'd but with far more gain | F |
| Of noble goods and with less time and pain | F |
| Thou art the same materials as before | G |
| Only the stamp is chang d but no more | G |
| And as new crowned kings alter the face | H |
| But not the money's substance so hath grace | H |
| Changed only God's old image by creation | I |
| To Christ's new stamp at this thy coronation | I |
| Or as we paint angels with wings because | J |
| They bear God's message and proclaim His laws | J |
| Since thou must do the like and so must move | K |
| Art thou new feather'd with celestial love | L |
| Dear tell me where thy purchase lies and show | M |
| What thy advantage is above below | M |
| But if thy gainings do surmount expression | I |
| Why doth the foolish world scorn that profession | I |
| Whose joys pass speech Why do they think unfit | N |
| That gentry should join families with it | N |
| As if their day were only to be spent | O |
| In dressing mistressing and compliment | O |
| Alas poor joys but poorer men whose trust | P |
| Seems richly plac d in sublim d dust | P |
| For such are clothes and beauty which though gay | Q |
| Are at the best but of sublim d clay | Q |
| Let then the world thy calling disrespect | R |
| But go thou on and pity their neglect | R |
| What function is so noble as to be | B |
| Ambassador to God and destiny | B |
| To open life to give kingdoms to more | G |
| Than kings give dignities to keep heaven's door | G |
| Mary's prerogative was to bear Christ so | M |
| 'Tis preachers' to convey Him for they do | S |
| As angels out of clouds from pulpits speak | T |
| And bless the poor beneath the lame the weak | T |
| If then th' astronomers whereas they spy | U |
| A new found star their optics magnify | U |
| How brave are those who with their engine can | V |
| Bring man to heaven and heaven again to man | V |
| These are thy titles and pre eminences | W |
| In whom must meet God's graces men's offences | W |
| And so the heavens which beget all things here | X |
| And the earth our mother which these things doth bear | E |
| Both these in thee are in thy calling knit | N |
| And make thee now a blest hermaphrodite | Y |
John Donne
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