To Lydia Maria Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHG IJKJ LMHM NOKO LPHP KHQH LRSR HNHT LULU| ON READING HER POEM IN 'THE STANDARD ' | A |
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| The sweet spring day is glad with music | B |
| But through it sounds a sadder strain | C |
| The worthiest of our narrowing circle | D |
| Sings Loring's dirges o'er again | E |
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| O woman greatly loved I join thee | F |
| In tender memories of our friend | G |
| With thee across the awful spaces | H |
| The greeting of a soul I send | G |
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| What cheer hath he How is it with him | I |
| Where lingers he this weary while | J |
| Over what pleasant fields of Heaven | K |
| Dawns the sweet sunrise of his smile | J |
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| Does he not know our feet are treading | L |
| The earth hard down on Slavery's grave | M |
| That in our crowning exultations | H |
| We miss the charm his presence gave | M |
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| Why on this spring air comes no whisper | N |
| From him to tell us all is well | O |
| Why to our flower time comes no token | K |
| Of lily and of asphodel | O |
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| I feel the unutterable longing | L |
| Thy hunger of the heart is mine | P |
| I reach and grope for hands in darkness | H |
| My ear grows sharp for voice or sign | P |
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| Still on the lips of all we question | K |
| The finger of God's silence lies | H |
| Will the lost hands in ours be folded | Q |
| Will the shut eyelids ever rise | H |
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| O friend no proof beyond this yearning | L |
| This outreach of our hearts we need | R |
| God will not mock the hope He giveth | S |
| No love He prompts shall vainly plead | R |
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| Then let us stretch our hands in darkness | H |
| And call our loved ones o'er and o'er | N |
| Some day their arms shall close about us | H |
| And the old voices speak once more | T |
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| No dreary splendors wait our coming | L |
| Where rapt ghost sits from ghost apart | U |
| Homeward we go to Heaven's thanksgiving | L |
| The harvest gathering of the heart | U |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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