Poet John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

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The Library Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE DDFF GGHH DDII DDJJ KKLL MMNN

'Let there be light ' God spake of oldA
And over chaos dark and coldA
And through the dead and formless frameB
Of nature life and order cameB
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Faint was the light at first that shoneC
On giant fern and mastodonD
On half formed plant and beast of preyE
And man as rude and wild as theyE
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Age after age like waves o'erranD
The earth uplifting brute and manD
And mind at length in symbols darkF
Its meanings traced on stone and barkF
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On leaf of palm on sedge wrought rollG
On plastic clay and leathern scrollG
Man wrote his thoughts the ages passedH
And to the Press was found at lastH
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Then dead souls woke the thoughts of menD
Whose bones were dust revived againD
The cloister's silence found a tongueI
Old prophets spake old poets sungI
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And here to day the dead look downD
The kings of mind again we crownD
We hear the voices lost so longJ
The sage's word the sibyl's songJ
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Here Greek and Roman find themselvesK
Alive along these crowded shelvesK
And Shakespeare treads again his stageL
And Chaucer paints anew his ageL
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As if some Pantheon's marbles brokeM
Their stony trance and lived and spokeM
Life thrills along the alcoved hallN
The lords of thought await our callN

John Greenleaf Whittier



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