Hymn To Spiritual Desire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBBCDEDFFDFD A GGHIJJKH A ILLIIIJIK JJFBB L MMNNFOJJFBOBOB| I | 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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