The Wish Of To-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKL MNMN OPQP RDRD| I ask not now for gold to gild | A |
| With mocking shine a weary frame | B |
| The yearning of the mind is stilled | A |
| I ask not now for Fame | B |
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| A rose cloud dimly seen above | C |
| Melting in heaven's blue depths away | D |
| Oh sweet fond dream of human Love | C |
| For thee I may not pray | D |
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| But bowed in lowliness of mind | E |
| I make my humble wishes known | F |
| I only ask a will resigned | E |
| O Father to Thine own | F |
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| To day beneath Thy chastening eye | G |
| I crave alone for peace and rest | H |
| Submissive in Thy hand to lie | G |
| And feel that it is best | H |
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| A marvel seems the Universe | I |
| A miracle our Life and Death | J |
| A mystery which I cannot pierce | K |
| Around above beneath | L |
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| In vain I task my aching brain | M |
| In vain the sage's thought I scan | N |
| I only feel how weak and vain | M |
| How poor and blind is man | N |
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| And now my spirit sighs for home | O |
| And longs for light whereby to see | P |
| And like a weary child would come | Q |
| O Father unto Thee | P |
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| Though oft like letters traced on sand | R |
| My weak resolves have passed away | D |
| In mercy lend Thy helping hand | R |
| Unto my prayer to day | D |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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