God's Gifts To Be Enjoyed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGFGF BHBHFFFF HDHDIJIJ| From God's all bounteous hand descend | A |
| Rare gifts in rich effusion | B |
| And with those gifts no poisons blend | A |
| Nor is their end delusion | B |
| So do not spurn if He bestow | C |
| Those forms arrayed in beauty | D |
| If thus His gifts with radiance glow | C |
| Enjoyment is a duty | D |
| - | |
| Come deck your brows with leaves and flowers | E |
| Ye fair ones nothing fearing | F |
| Adorn your homes and train your bowers | E |
| Nor deem this sin's appearing | F |
| We do not fit ourselves for bliss | G |
| By scorning all adorning | F |
| We may enjoy the good of this | G |
| And share heaven's brighter morning | F |
| - | |
| A garment plain may have its stain | B |
| And saintly brows lack sweetness | H |
| But he who would heaven's glory gain | B |
| Must here acquire a meetness | H |
| So eat and drink rejoice and sing | F |
| But don't forget the ending | F |
| The bells of earth more sweetly ring | F |
| If we are heavenward tending | F |
| - | |
| The world we use but not abuse | H |
| If we enjoy its beauty | D |
| And they who all its joys refuse | H |
| Miss privilege and duty | D |
| Then prize earth's joys but prize much more | I |
| The bloom beyond the river | J |
| God's gifts enjoy but e'er adore | I |
| The ever blessed Giver | J |
Joseph Horatio Chant
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about God's Gifts To Be Enjoyed poem by Joseph Horatio Chant
Best Poems of Joseph Horatio Chant