The Bridegroom Of Cana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCD EFEBGGFF HIJHIHK LMLMNNN OPHHOP QQJRSSHHR| 'There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee And both Jesus was called and His disciples to the marriage ' | A |
| - | |
| - | |
| VEIL thine eyes O belov d my spouse | B |
| Turn them away | C |
| Lest in their light my life withdrawn | D |
| Dies as a star as a star in the day | C |
| As a dream in the dawn | D |
| - | |
| Slenderly hang the olive leaves | E |
| Sighing apart | F |
| The rose and silver doves in the eaves | E |
| With a murmur of music bind our house | B |
| Honey and wine in thy words are stored | G |
| Thy lips are bright as the edge of a sword | G |
| That hath found my heart | F |
| That hath found my heart | F |
| - | |
| Sweet I have waked from a dream of thee | H |
| And of Him | I |
| He who came when the songs were done | J |
| From the net of thy smiles my heart went free | H |
| And the golden lure of thy love grew dim | I |
| I turned to them asking 'Who is He | H |
| Royal and sad who comes to the feast | K |
| And sits Him down in the place of the least ' | - |
| And they said 'He is Jesus the carpenter's son ' | - |
| - | |
| Hear how my harp on a single string | L |
| Murmurs of love | M |
| Down in the fields the thrushes sing | L |
| And the lark is lost in the light above | M |
| Lost in the infinite glowing whole | N |
| As I in thy soul | N |
| As I in thy soul | N |
| - | |
| Love I am fain for thy glowing grace | O |
| As the pool for the star as the rain for the rill | P |
| Turn to me trust to me mirror me | H |
| As the star in the pool as the cloud in the sea | H |
| Love I looked awhile in His face | O |
| And was still | P |
| - | |
| The shaft of the dawn strikes clear and sharp | Q |
| Hush my harp | Q |
| Hush my harp for the day is begun | J |
| And the lifting shimmering flight of the swallow | R |
| Breaks in a curve on the brink of morn | S |
| Over the sycamores over the corn | S |
| Cling to me cleave to me prison me | H |
| As the mote in the flame as the shell in the sea | H |
| For the winds of the dawn say 'Follow follow | R |
| Jesus Bar Joseph the carpenter's son ' | - |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Bridegroom Of Cana poem by Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
Best Poems of Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall