Loved And Lost, -- Or -- The Sky-lark And The Violet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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LOVED AND LOST OR THE SKY LARK AND THE VIOLETA
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VIOLET'S SONGB
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I-
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Come down from thy dazzling sphereC
Bird of the gushing songB
Come down where the young leaves whisper lowD
While the breeze steals in with a murmurous flowD
And the tender branches wave to and froD
In the soft air all day longB
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I have watched thy daring wingE
Cleaving the sun bright airF
Where the snowy cloud is asleep in lightG
Or dreamily floating in robes of whiteG
While thy soul gushed forth in its song's free mightG
Till my spirit is dim with careF
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For oh I have loved thee wellH
Thou of the soaring wingE
And I fear lest the angels that sit on high-
In the calm still depths of the upper sky-
Will love with a tenderer love than I-
As they stoop to hear thee singE
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Come down from the heights my birdI
And warble thy lays to meJ
I shall pine and droop in my grassy nookK
For the passionate song that my spirit shookK
And the low sad voice of the grieving brookK
Will murmur all night of theeJ
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I shall sit alone aloneL
While the noontide hour steals by-
And mournful the woodland's music will beJ
Mournful the blue calm heavens to meJ
Mournful the glory on earth and seaJ
And mournful the sunset sky-
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O voice of exulting songB
O bright unwavering eye-
O free wing soaring in fetterless flightG
Up to the Fountain of quenchless LightG
O Earth that darken'st in sudden nightG
I shudder and faint and die-
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SKY LARK'S SONGB
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II-
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From the dewy grass upspringingB
From my wing the pearl drops flingingB
Upward with exultant singingB
Let me let me fly-
Sun with gemmed and flashing bannersM
List my rapturous hosannasM
As I mount on circling wingB
Higher o'er the fragrant meadowD
O'er the forest's broken shadowD
O'er the hill tops green and goldenN
Where the ivied ruins oldenN
Echo out with sudden gladnessM
As I break their brooding sadnessM
With the lays I singB
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Joy joy I have caught the songB
Of the angels that sit aboveO
And warble in musical chorus alwayP
Those notes that oftentimes earthward strayQ
So tenderly sweet at the fall of dayQ
What time the rose bud's trembling sprayQ
Thrills with their lays of loveO
Joy joy I have caught the songB
Of bright ones that sit aboveO
And the far off Earth's a forgotten thingB
As I mount on free and fetterless wingB
Up to the sun fields where they singB
Drawn on by their soul of loveO
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Hush is it a voice of EarthR
Of the far away Earth I hearS
Breathing of the fragrant meadowD
Of the drooping willow's shadowD
Of the breezes' gentle sighingB
Of the brooklet's low replyingB
Of the blue o'er arching heavenN
Of the violet curtained evenT
Of the tender dreamy starlightG
Of the hushed majestic midnightG
And through all that murmur so sad and lowD
Meanings of passionate anguish flowD
Till I feel a weight on my glancing wingB
Bearing me earthward while yet I singB
With its burden of heavy woeD
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VIOLET'S SONGB
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III-
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Bird I am drooping in tears aloneL
Pressing my cheek 'gainst the cold grey stoneL
And looking upward with aching eye-
Through the tender depths of the morning sky-
But thy form fades out in that glorious seaM
That lieth so calmly 'twixt thee and meM
A speck it is lost in the azure deepU
And I droop in the deepening gloom and weepU
My sorrowful life awayQ
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O voice of passionate songB
O bright unwavering eye-
O free wing soaring in limitless flightG
Beyond the stretch of my aching sightG
How the cold earth darkens in sudden nightG
How I shudder and faint and die-
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SKY LARK'S SONGB
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IVO
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Fainter and fainter 'tis heard no moreV
That plaintive strain from Earth's lessening shoreV
And I fling its weight from my fetterless wingB
Higher and higher in heaven to singB
Afar from Earth's faded shoreV
I shall take my seat in the cloudsM
I shall sit beside the SunN
I shall gaze with calm unfaltering eye-
On the face of the radiant oneN
O glorious kingly SunN
O brightly beautiful oneN
O Monarch sitting serenely brightG
In thy quenchless glory on heaven's heightG
I am upward drawn to theeM
And thy fiery spirit's ardent flameW
Is downward drawn to meM
Sun with gemmed and flashing bannersM
List my rapturous hosannasM
As I circle nearer nearerX
Where your rays burn brighter clearerX
Up on wings of strong desireX
Higher still and ever higherX
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VIOLET'S SONGB
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VM
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I droop by the cold grey stoneL
I faint in the smitten dayQ
I hear not the song of my own free birdI
Whose joyous music my glad heart stirredI
But yester morn I can see no moreV
The humming bird's wing as it flutters o'erX
The fragrant clover bloomY
The brook with a far off sorrowful toneL
Seemeth in measureless grief to moanL
As it hurrieth on its wayQ
The breath of my lost perfumeY
Floats on the wandering breezeM
Over the meadow's perishing bloomY
Over the cold blue seasM
I would not gather it backB
I would not fill anewZ
With love's pure incense my broken urnA2
For the lost can never more returnA2
From the sky's encompassing blueZ
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It is well I would not hangB
A weight on his fetterless wingB
For was he not make for the sun bright sky-
To face the glories that burn on high-
And I to sit 'mid Earth's fading bloomY
And waste my life in the faint perfumeY
I fling to the thankless breezeM
Let him cleave the azure infiniteB2
Let him pour his soul out in song's free mightG
Till the white robed seraphs that dwell in lightG
Shall stoop to hear him singB
Be it mine to fade ere the day beams die-
And alone in the sighing grass to lie-
With my dull face turned to the tearless sky-
A faded forgotten thingB

Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)



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