Heart-pictures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE CFCFGHIH CJKLMNMN OAOAPQPQ CRSRTTTT TUTUBNBN| Two pictures strangely beautiful I hold | A |
| In Mem'ry's chambers stored with loving care | B |
| Among the precious things I prized of old | A |
| And hid away with tender tear and prayer | B |
| The first an aged woman's placid face | C |
| Full of the saintly calm of well spent years | D |
| Yet bearing in its pensive lines the trace | C |
| Of weariness and care and many tears | E |
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| We sat together in our Sabbath place | C |
| Through the hushed hours of many a holy day | F |
| And sweet it was to watch the gentle grace | C |
| Of that bowed form with those who knelt to pray | F |
| And lifted face when swelled the sacred psalm | G |
| And the rich promise of God's word was shed | H |
| Upon her waiting heart like heavenly balm | I |
| And all our souls with angels' meat were fed | H |
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| There came a day when missing was that face | C |
| The form so meekly bent in prayer was gone | J |
| Those lifted eyes so radiant with praise | K |
| Beyond the spheres in saintly beauty shone | L |
| Another crowned one swelling Heaven's high train | M |
| Another loved one missed from our low shrine | N |
| Hers the rich wealth of Heaven's eternal gain | M |
| A tearful trust a tender memory mine | N |
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| The other picture is a young fair child | O |
| A gentle boy with curls of clustered gold | A |
| And calm dark eyes that seldom more than smiled | O |
| As though his life had grown too grave and old | A |
| Too full of earnest thought and anxious quest | P |
| And silent searchings after things unseen | Q |
| And yet the quiet child seemed strangely blest | P |
| As one who inly feels Heaven's peace serene | Q |
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| So close beside me in his Sabbath place | C |
| He sat or stood my hand I might have laid | R |
| Upon his rippling curls or dropped a kiss | S |
| Upon his fair white forehead while he prayed | R |
| Frail beauteous boy upon his little feet | T |
| Though all unheard by love's quick ear attent | T |
| E'en then Death's chilling waters sternly beat | T |
| And with his sweet child hymns their murmurs blent | T |
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| One Sabbath day there was an empty seat | T |
| I could not see for blinding tears that hour | U |
| But by and by where Living waters meet | T |
| In God's fair Paradise I saw my flower | U |
| And ceased to weep Henceforth with loving care | B |
| These precious pictures in my heart I shrine | N |
| Food for sweet thought incentive to sweet prayer | B |
| My own until I reach their home and mine | N |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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