Hymn To Spiritual Desire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBBCDEDFFDFD A GGHIJJKH A ILLIIIJIK JJFBB L MMNNFOJJFBOBOBI | A |
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Mother of visions with lineaments dulcet as numbers | B |
Breathed on the eyelids of Love by music that slumbers | B |
Secretly sweetly O presence of fire and snow | C |
Thou comest mysterious | B |
In beauty imperious | B |
Clad on with dreams and the light of no world that we know | C |
Deep to my innermost soul am I shaken | D |
Helplessly shaken and tossed | E |
And of thy tyrannous yearnings so utterly taken | D |
My lips unsatisfied thirst | F |
Mine eyes are accurst | F |
With longings for visions that far in the night are forsaken | D |
And mine ears in listening lost | F |
Yearn waiting the note of a chord that will never awaken | D |
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II | A |
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Like palpable music thou comest like moonlight and far | G |
Resonant bar upon bar | G |
The vibrating lyre | H |
Of the spirit responds with melodious fire | I |
As thy fluttering fingers now grasp it and ardently shake | J |
With laughter and ache | J |
The chords of existence the instrument star sprung | K |
Whose frame is of clay so wonderfully molded of mire | H |
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III | A |
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Vested with vanquishment come O Desire Desire | I |
Breathe in this harp of my soul the audible angel of Love | L |
Make of my heart an Israfel burning above | L |
A lute for the music of God that lips which are mortal but stammer | I |
Smite every rapturous wire | I |
With golden delirium rebellion and silvery clamor | I |
Crying 'Awake awake | J |
Too long hast thou slumbered too far from the regions of glamour | I |
With its mountains of magic its fountains of faery the spar sprung | K |
Hast thou wandered away O Heart ' | - |
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Come oh come and partake | J |
Of necromance banquets of Beauty and slake | J |
Thy thirst in the waters of Art | F |
That are drawn from the streams | B |
Of love and of dreams | B |
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IV | L |
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'Come oh come | M |
No longer shall language be dumb | M |
Thy vision shall grasp | N |
As one doth the glittering hasp | N |
Of a sword made splendid with gems and with gold | F |
The wonder and richness of life not anguish and hate of it merely | O |
And out of the stark | J |
Eternity awful and dark | J |
Immensity silent and cold | F |
Universe shaking as trumpets or cymbaling metals | B |
Imperious yet pensive and pearly | O |
And soft as the rosy unfolding of petals | B |
Or crumbling aroma of blossoms that wither too early | O |
The majestic music of God where He plays | B |
On the organ eternal and vast of eons and days ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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