Loved And Lost, -- Or -- The Sky-lark And The Violet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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VIOLET'S SONG | B |
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I | - |
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Come down from thy dazzling sphere | C |
Bird of the gushing song | B |
Come down where the young leaves whisper low | D |
While the breeze steals in with a murmurous flow | D |
And the tender branches wave to and fro | D |
In the soft air all day long | B |
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I have watched thy daring wing | E |
Cleaving the sun bright air | F |
Where the snowy cloud is asleep in light | G |
Or dreamily floating in robes of white | G |
While thy soul gushed forth in its song's free might | G |
Till my spirit is dim with care | F |
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For oh I have loved thee well | H |
Thou of the soaring wing | E |
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 sing | E |
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Come down from the heights my bird | I |
And warble thy lays to me | J |
I shall pine and droop in my grassy nook | K |
For the passionate song that my spirit shook | K |
And the low sad voice of the grieving brook | K |
Will murmur all night of thee | J |
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I shall sit alone alone | L |
While the noontide hour steals by | - |
And mournful the woodland's music will be | J |
Mournful the blue calm heavens to me | J |
Mournful the glory on earth and sea | J |
And mournful the sunset sky | - |
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O voice of exulting song | B |
O bright unwavering eye | - |
O free wing soaring in fetterless flight | G |
Up to the Fountain of quenchless Light | G |
O Earth that darken'st in sudden night | G |
I shudder and faint and die | - |
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SKY LARK'S SONG | B |
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II | - |
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From the dewy grass upspringing | B |
From my wing the pearl drops flinging | B |
Upward with exultant singing | B |
Let me let me fly | - |
Sun with gemmed and flashing banners | M |
List my rapturous hosannas | M |
As I mount on circling wing | B |
Higher o'er the fragrant meadow | D |
O'er the forest's broken shadow | D |
O'er the hill tops green and golden | N |
Where the ivied ruins olden | N |
Echo out with sudden gladness | M |
As I break their brooding sadness | M |
With the lays I sing | B |
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Joy joy I have caught the song | B |
Of the angels that sit above | O |
And warble in musical chorus alway | P |
Those notes that oftentimes earthward stray | Q |
So tenderly sweet at the fall of day | Q |
What time the rose bud's trembling spray | Q |
Thrills with their lays of love | O |
Joy joy I have caught the song | B |
Of bright ones that sit above | O |
And the far off Earth's a forgotten thing | B |
As I mount on free and fetterless wing | B |
Up to the sun fields where they sing | B |
Drawn on by their soul of love | O |
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Hush is it a voice of Earth | R |
Of the far away Earth I hear | S |
Breathing of the fragrant meadow | D |
Of the drooping willow's shadow | D |
Of the breezes' gentle sighing | B |
Of the brooklet's low replying | B |
Of the blue o'er arching heaven | N |
Of the violet curtained even | T |
Of the tender dreamy starlight | G |
Of the hushed majestic midnight | G |
And through all that murmur so sad and low | D |
Meanings of passionate anguish flow | D |
Till I feel a weight on my glancing wing | B |
Bearing me earthward while yet I sing | B |
With its burden of heavy woe | D |
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VIOLET'S SONG | B |
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III | - |
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Bird I am drooping in tears alone | L |
Pressing my cheek 'gainst the cold grey stone | L |
And looking upward with aching eye | - |
Through the tender depths of the morning sky | - |
But thy form fades out in that glorious sea | M |
That lieth so calmly 'twixt thee and me | M |
A speck it is lost in the azure deep | U |
And I droop in the deepening gloom and weep | U |
My sorrowful life away | Q |
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O voice of passionate song | B |
O bright unwavering eye | - |
O free wing soaring in limitless flight | G |
Beyond the stretch of my aching sight | G |
How the cold earth darkens in sudden night | G |
How I shudder and faint and die | - |
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SKY LARK'S SONG | B |
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IV | O |
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Fainter and fainter 'tis heard no more | V |
That plaintive strain from Earth's lessening shore | V |
And I fling its weight from my fetterless wing | B |
Higher and higher in heaven to sing | B |
Afar from Earth's faded shore | V |
I shall take my seat in the clouds | M |
I shall sit beside the Sun | N |
I shall gaze with calm unfaltering eye | - |
On the face of the radiant one | N |
O glorious kingly Sun | N |
O brightly beautiful one | N |
O Monarch sitting serenely bright | G |
In thy quenchless glory on heaven's height | G |
I am upward drawn to thee | M |
And thy fiery spirit's ardent flame | W |
Is downward drawn to me | M |
Sun with gemmed and flashing banners | M |
List my rapturous hosannas | M |
As I circle nearer nearer | X |
Where your rays burn brighter clearer | X |
Up on wings of strong desire | X |
Higher still and ever higher | X |
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VIOLET'S SONG | B |
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V | M |
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I droop by the cold grey stone | L |
I faint in the smitten day | Q |
I hear not the song of my own free bird | I |
Whose joyous music my glad heart stirred | I |
But yester morn I can see no more | V |
The humming bird's wing as it flutters o'er | X |
The fragrant clover bloom | Y |
The brook with a far off sorrowful tone | L |
Seemeth in measureless grief to moan | L |
As it hurrieth on its way | Q |
The breath of my lost perfume | Y |
Floats on the wandering breeze | M |
Over the meadow's perishing bloom | Y |
Over the cold blue seas | M |
I would not gather it back | B |
I would not fill anew | Z |
With love's pure incense my broken urn | A2 |
For the lost can never more return | A2 |
From the sky's encompassing blue | Z |
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It is well I would not hang | B |
A weight on his fetterless wing | B |
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 bloom | Y |
And waste my life in the faint perfume | Y |
I fling to the thankless breeze | M |
Let him cleave the azure infinite | B2 |
Let him pour his soul out in song's free might | G |
Till the white robed seraphs that dwell in light | G |
Shall stoop to hear him sing | B |
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 thing | B |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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