Poppy And Mandragora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJKL MMCCNNOOPP QQRRSSTTUU VVWWXXYXZZ GGXXXXA2B2XX C2C2D2D2E2E2F2F2G2G2

Let us go far from hereA
Here there is sadness in the early yearB
Here sorrow waits where joy went laughing lateC
The sicklied face of heaven hangs like hateC
Above the woodland and the meadowlandD
And Spring hath taken fire in her handD
Of frost and made a dead bloom of her faceE
Which was a flower of marvel once and graceE
And sweet serenity and stainless glowF
Delay not Let us goF
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Let us go far awayG
Into the sunrise of a fairer MayG
Where all the nights resign them to the moonH
And drug their souls with odor and soft tuneH
And tell their dreams in starlight where the hoursI
Teach immortality with fadeless flowersI
And all the day the bee weights down the bloomJ
And all the night the moth shakes strange perfumeJ
Like music from the flower bells' affluenceK
Let us go far from henceL
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Why should we sit and weepM
And yearn with heavy eyelids still to sleepM
Forever hiding from our hearts the hateC
Death within death life doth accumulateC
Like winter snows along the barren leasN
And sterile hills whereon no lover seesN
The crocus limn the beautiful in flameO
Or hyacinth and jonquil write the nameO
Of Love in fire for each passer byP
Why should we sit and sighP
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We will not stay and longQ
Here where our souls are wasting for a songQ
Where no bird sings and dim beneath the starsR
No silvery water strikes melodious barsR
And in the rocks and forest covered hillsS
No quick tongued echo from her grotto fillsS
With eery syllables the solitudeT
The vocal image of the voice that wooedT
She of wild sounds the airy looking glassU
Our souls are tired alasU
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What should we say to herV
To Spring who in our hearts makes no sweet stirV
Who looks not on us nor gives thought untoW
Too busy with the birth of flowers and dewW
And vague gold wings within the chrysalisX
Or Love who will not miss us had no kissX
To give your soul or the sad soul of meY
Who bound our hearts to her in poesyX
Long since and wear her badge of service stillZ
Have we not served our fillZ
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We will go far awayG
Song will not care who slays our souls each dayG
With the dark daggers of denying eyesX
And lips of silence Had she sighed us liesX
Not passionate yet falsely tremulousX
And lent her mouth to ours in mockery thusX
Smiled from calm eyes as if appreciativeA2
Then then our love had taught itself to liveB2
Feeding itself on hope and recompenseX
But no So let us henceX
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So be the Bible shutC2
Of all her Beauty and her wisdom butC2
A clasp for memory We will not seekD2
The light that came not when the soul was weakD2
With longing and the darkness gave no signE2
Of star born comfort Nay why kneel and whineE2
Sad psalms of patience and hosannas ofF2
Old hope and dreary canticles of loveF2
Let us depart since as we long supposedG2
For us God's book was closedG2

Madison Julius Cawein



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