Hymn To Spiritual Desire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBBCDEDFFDFD A GGHIJJKH A ILLIIIJIK JJFBB L MMNNFOJJFBOBOB

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Mother of visions with lineaments dulcet as numbersB
Breathed on the eyelids of Love by music that slumbersB
Secretly sweetly O presence of fire and snowC
Thou comest mysteriousB
In beauty imperiousB
Clad on with dreams and the light of no world that we knowC
Deep to my innermost soul am I shakenD
Helplessly shaken and tossedE
And of thy tyrannous yearnings so utterly takenD
My lips unsatisfied thirstF
Mine eyes are accurstF
With longings for visions that far in the night are forsakenD
And mine ears in listening lostF
Yearn waiting the note of a chord that will never awakenD
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IIA
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Like palpable music thou comest like moonlight and farG
Resonant bar upon barG
The vibrating lyreH
Of the spirit responds with melodious fireI
As thy fluttering fingers now grasp it and ardently shakeJ
With laughter and acheJ
The chords of existence the instrument star sprungK
Whose frame is of clay so wonderfully molded of mireH
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IIIA
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Vested with vanquishment come O Desire DesireI
Breathe in this harp of my soul the audible angel of LoveL
Make of my heart an Israfel burning aboveL
A lute for the music of God that lips which are mortal but stammerI
Smite every rapturous wireI
With golden delirium rebellion and silvery clamorI
Crying 'Awake awakeJ
Too long hast thou slumbered too far from the regions of glamourI
With its mountains of magic its fountains of faery the spar sprungK
Hast thou wandered away O Heart '-
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Come oh come and partakeJ
Of necromance banquets of Beauty and slakeJ
Thy thirst in the waters of ArtF
That are drawn from the streamsB
Of love and of dreamsB
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IVL
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'Come oh comeM
No longer shall language be dumbM
Thy vision shall graspN
As one doth the glittering haspN
Of a sword made splendid with gems and with goldF
The wonder and richness of life not anguish and hate of it merelyO
And out of the starkJ
Eternity awful and darkJ
Immensity silent and coldF
Universe shaking as trumpets or cymbaling metalsB
Imperious yet pensive and pearlyO
And soft as the rosy unfolding of petalsB
Or crumbling aroma of blossoms that wither too earlyO
The majestic music of God where He playsB
On the organ eternal and vast of eons and days '-

Madison Julius Cawein



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