Original Poetry By Victor And Cazire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Published by Shelley A Reprint edited by Richard Garnett C B LL D was issued by John Lane in The punctuation of the original edition is here retained	A
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A Person complained that whenever he began to write he never could arrange his ideas in grammatical order Which occasion suggested the idea of the following lines	B
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Here I sit with my paper my pen and my ink	C
First of this thing and that thing and t'other thing think	C
Then my thoughts come so pell mell all into my mind	D
That the sense or the subject I never can find	D
This word is wrong placed no regard to the sense	E
The present and future instead of past tense	E
Then my grammar I want O dear what a bore	F
I think I shall never attempt to write more	F
With patience I then my thoughts must arraign	G
Have them all in due order like mutes in a train	G
Like them too must wait in due patience and thought	H
Or else my fine works will all come to nought	H
My wit too's so copious it flows like a river	I
But disperses its waters on black and white never	I
Like smoke it appears independent and free	J
But ah luckless smoke it all passes like thee	J
Then at length all my patience entirely lost	H
My paper and pens in the fire are tossed	H
But come try again you must never despair	K
Our Murray's or Entick's are not all so rare	K
Implore their assistance they'll come to your aid	H
Perform all your business without being paid	H
They'll tell you the present tense future and past	H
Which should come first and which should come last	H
This Murray will do then to Entick repair	K
To find out the meaning of any word rare	K
This they friendly will tell and ne'er make you blush	L
With a jeering look taunt or an O fie tush	M
Then straight all your thoughts in black and white put	H
Not minding the if's the be's and the but	H
Then read it all over see how it will run	N
How answers the wit the retort and the pun	N
Your writings may then with old Socrates vie	O
May on the same shelf with Demosthenes lie	O
May as Junius be sharp or as Plato be sage	P
The pattern or satire to all of the age	P
But stop a mad author I mean not to turn	Q
Nor with thirst of applause does my heated brain burn	Q
Sufficient that sense wit and grammar combined	H
My letters may make some slight food for the mind	H
That my thoughts to my friends I may freely impart	H
In all the warm language that flows from the heart	H
Hark futurity calls it loudly complains	R
It bids me step forward and just hold the reins	R
My excuse shall be humble and faithful and true	S
Such as I fear can be made but by few	S
Of writers this age has abundance and plenty	J
Three score and a thousand two millions and twenty	J
Three score of them wits who all sharply vie	O
To try what odd creature they best can belie	O
A thousand are prudes who for CHARITY write	H
And fill up their sheets with spleen envy and spite	H
One million are bards who to Heaven aspire	T
And stuff their works full of bombast rant and fire	I
T'other million are wags who in Grubstreet attend	H
And just like a cobbler the old writings mend	H
The twenty are those who for pulpits indite	H
And pore over sermons all Saturday night	H
And now my good friends who come after I mean	U
As I ne'er wore a cassock or dined with a dean	U
Or like cobblers at mending I never did try	O
Nor with poets in lyrics attempted to vie	O
As for prudes these good souls I both hate and detest	H
So here I believe the matter must rest	H
I've heard your complaint my answer I've made	H
And since to your calls all the tribute I've paid	H
Adieu my good friend pray never despair	K
But grammar and sense and everything dare	K
Attempt but to write dashing easy and free	J
Then take out your grammar and pay him his fee	J
Be not a coward shrink not to a tense	E
But read it all over and make it out sense	E
What a tiresome girl pray soon make an end	H
Else my limited patience you'll quickly expend	H
Well adieu I no longer your patience will try	O
So swift to the post now the letter shall fly	O
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JANUARY	J
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TO MISS HARRIET GROVE FROM MISS ELIZABETH SHELLEY	J
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For your letter dear Hattie accept my best thanks	V
Rendered long and amusing by virtue of franks	V
Though concise they would please yet the longer the better	I
The more news that's crammed in more amusing the letter	I
All excuses of etiquette nonsense I hate	H
Which only are fit for the tardy and late	H
As when converse grows flat of the weather they talk	W
How fair the sun shines a fine day for a walk	W
Then to politics turn of Burdett's reformation	N
One declares it would hurt t'other better the nation	N
Will ministers keep sure they've acted quite wrong	X
The burden this is of each morning call song	X
So is going to you say	Y
I hope that success her great efforts will pay	Y
That the Colonel will see her be dazzled outright	H
And declare he can't bear to be out of her sight	H
Write flaming epistles with love's pointed dart	H
Whose sharp little arrow struck right on his heart	H
Scold poor innocent Cupid for mischievous ways	Z
He knows not how much to laud forth her praise	Z
That he neither eats drinks or sleeps for her sake	A2
And hopes her hard heart some compassion will take	A2
A refusal would kill him so desperate his flame	B2
But he fears for he knows she is not common game	B2
Then praises her sense wit discernment and grace	C2
He's not one that's caught by a sly looking face	C2
Yet that's TOO divine such a black sparkling eye	O
At the bare glance of which near a thousand will die	O
Thus runs he on meaning but one word in ten	D2
More than is meant by most such kind of men	D2
For they're all alike take them one with another	I
Begging pardon with the exception of my brother	I
Of the drawings you mention much praise I have heard	H
Most opinion's the same with the difference of word	H
Some get a good name by the voice of the crowd	H
Whilst to poor humble merit small praise is allowed	H
As in parliament votes so in pictures a name	B2
Oft determines a fate at the altar of fame	B2
So on Friday this City's gay vortex you quit	H
And no longer with Doctors and Johnny cats sit	H
Now your parcel's arrived Bysshe's letter shall go	E2
I hope all your joy mayn't be turned into woe	E2
Experience will tell you that pleasure is vain	G
When it promises sunshine how often comes rain	G
So when to fond hope every blessing is nigh	O
How oft when we smile it is checked with a sigh	O
When Hope gay deceiver in pleasure is dressed	H
How oft comes a stroke that may rob us of rest	H
When we think ourselves safe and the goal near at hand	H
Like a vessel just landing we're wrecked near the strand	H
And though memory forever the sharp pang must feel	F2
'Tis our duty to bear and our hardship to steel	F2
May misfortunes dear Girl ne'er thy happiness cloy	G2
May thy days glide in peace love comfort and joy	G2
May thy tears with soft pity for other woes flow	E2
Woes which thy tender heart never may know	E2
For hardships our own God has taught us to bear	K
Though sympathy's soul to a friend drops a tear	K
Oh dear what sentimental stuff have I written	N
Only fit to tear up and play with a kitten	N
What sober reflections in the midst of this letter	I
Jocularity sure would have suited much better	I
But there are exceptions to all common rules	H2
For this is a truth by all boys learned at schools	H2
Now adieu my dear Hattie I'm sure I must tire	I
For if I do you may throw it into the fire	I
So accept the best love of your cousin and friend	H
Which brings this nonsensical rhyme to an end	H
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APRIL	I2
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NOTE	H
mischievous mischevious	H2
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SONG	X
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Cold cold is the blast when December is howling	J2
Cold are the damps on a dying man's brow	K2
Stern are the seas when the wild waves are rolling	J2
And sad is the grave where a loved one lies low	E2
But colder is scorn from the being who loved thee	J
More stern is the sneer from the friend who has proved thee	J
More sad are the tears when their sorrows have moved thee	J
Which mixed with groans anguish and wild madness flow	E2
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And ah poor has felt all this horror	I
Full long the fallen victim contended with fate	H
'Till a destitute outcast abandoned to sorrow	E2
She sought her babe's food at her ruiner's gate	H
Another had charmed the remorseless betrayer	E2
He turned laughing aside from her moans and her prayer	E2
She said nothing but wringing the wet from her hair	E2
Crossed the dark mountain side though the hour it was late	H
'Twas on the wild height of the dark Penmanmawr	E2
That the form of the wasted reclined	H
She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar	E2
And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind	H
I call not yon rocks where the thunder peals rattle	I2
I call not yon clouds where the elements battle	I2
But thee cruel I call thee unkind '	-
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Then she wreathed in her hair the wild flowers of the mountain	N
And deliriously laughing a garland entwined	H
She bedewed it with tears then she hung o'er the fountain	N
And leaving it cast it a prey to the wind	H
'Ah go ' she exclaimed 'when the tempest is yelling	J2
'Tis unkind to be cast on the sea that is swelling	J2
But I left a pitiless outcast my dwelling	J2
My garments are torn so they say is my mind '	-
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Not long lived but over her grave	L2
Waved the desolate form of a storm blasted yew	S
Around it no demons or ghosts dare to rave	L2
But spirits of peace steep her slumbers in dew	S
Then stay thy swift steps mid the dark mountain heather	E2
Though chill blow the wind and severe is the weather	E2
For perfidy traveller cannot bereave her	E2
Of the tears to the tombs of the innocent due	S
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JULY	O
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SONG	X
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Come Harriet sweet is the hour	E2
Soft Zephyrs breathe gently around	H
The anemone's night boding flower	E2
Has sunk its pale head on the ground	H
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'Tis thus the world's keenness hath torn	M2
Some mild heart that expands to its blast	H
'Tis thus that the wretched forlorn	M2
Sinks poor and neglected at last	H
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The world with its keenness and woe	E2
Has no charms or attraction for me	J
Its unkindness with grief has laid low	E2
The heart which is faithful to thee	J
The high trees that wave past the moon	N2
As I walk in their umbrage with you	S
All declare I must part with you soon	N2
All bid you a tender adieu	S
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Then Harriet dearest farewell	O2
You and I love may ne'er meet again	D2
These woods and these meadows can tell	O2
How soft and how sweet was the strain	G
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APRIL	I2
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SONG	X
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DESPAIR	E2
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Ask not the pallid stranger's woe	E2
With beating heart and throbbing breast	H
Whose step is faltering weak and slow	E2
As though the body needed rest	H
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Whose 'wildered eye no object meets	H2
Nor cares to ken a friendly glance	H2
With silent grief his bosom beats	H2
Now fixed as in a deathlike trance	H2
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Who looks around with fearful eye	O
And shuns all converse with man kind	H
As though some one his griefs might spy	O
And soothe them with a kindred mind	H
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A friend or foe to him the same	B2
He looks on each with equal eye	O
The difference lies but in the name	B2
To none for comfort can he fly	O
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'Twas deep despair and sorrow's trace	H2
To him too keenly given	N
Whose memory time could not efface	H2
His peace was lodged in Heaven	N
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He looks on all this world bestows	H2
The pride and pomp of power	E2
As trifles best for pageant shows	H2
Which vanish in an hour	E2
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When torn is dear affection's tie	O
Sinks the soft heart full low	E2
It leaves without a parting sigh	O
All that these realms bestow	E2
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JUNE	N2
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SONG	X
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SORROW	E2
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To me this world's a dreary blank	P2
All hopes in life are gone and fled	H
My high strung energies are sank	P2
And all my blissful hopes lie dead	H
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The world once smiling to my view	S
Showed scenes of endless bliss and joy	G2
The world I then but little knew	S
Ah little knew how pleasures cloy	G2
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All then was jocund all was gay	Y
No thought beyond the present hour	E2
I danced in pleasure's fading ray	Y
Fading alas as drooping flower	E2
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Nor do the heedless in the throng	X
One thought beyond the morrow give	Q2
They court the feast the dance the song	X
Nor think how short their time to live	R2
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The heart that bears deep sorrow's trace	H2
What earthly comfort can console	S2
It drags a dull and lengthened pace	H2
'Till friendly death its woes enroll	S2
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The sunken cheek the humid eyes	H2
E'en better than the tongue can tell	O2
In whose sad breast deep sorrow lies	H2
Where memory's rankling traces dwell	O2
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The rising tear the stifled sigh	O
A mind but ill at ease display	Y
Like blackening clouds in stormy sky	O
Where fiercely vivid lightnings play	Y
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Thus when souls' energy is dead	H
When sorrow dims each earthly view	S
When every fairy hope is fled	H
We bid ungrateful world adieu	S
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AUGUST	H
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SONG	X
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HOPE	T2
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And said I that all hope was fled	H
That sorrow and despair were mine	U2
That each enthusiast wish was dead	H
Had sank beneath pale Misery's shrine	U2
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Seest thou the sunbeam's yellow glow	E2
That robes with liquid streams of light	H
Yon distant Mountain's craggy brow	E2
And shows the rocks so fair so bright	H
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Tis thus sweet expectation's ray	Y
In softer view shows distant hours	H2
And portrays each succeeding day	Y
As dressed in fairer brighter flowers	H2
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The vermeil tinted flowers that blossom	V2
Are frozen but to bud anew	S
Then sweet deceiver calm my bosom	V2
Although thy visions be not true	S
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Yet true they are and I'll believe	W2
Thy whisperings soft of love and peace	H2
God never made thee to deceive	W2
'Tis sin that bade thy empire cease	H2
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Yet though despair my life should gloom	X2
Though horror should around me close	H2
With those I love beyond the tomb	X2
Hope shows a balm for all my woes	H2
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AUGUST	H
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SONG	X
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TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN	N
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Oh what is the gain of restless care	E2
And what is ambitious treasure	E2
And what are the joys that the modish share	E2
In their sickly haunts of pleasure	E2
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My husband's repast with delight I spread	H
What though 'tis but rustic fare	E2
May each guardian angel protect his shed	H
May contentment and quiet be there	E2
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And may I support my husband's years	H2
May I soothe his dying pain	G
And then may I dry my fast falling tears	H2
And meet him in Heaven again	D2
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JULY	O
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SONG	X
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TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN	N
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Ah grasp the dire dagger and couch the fell spear	E2
If vengeance and death to thy bosom be dear	E2
The dastard shall perish death's torment shall prove	Y2
For fate and revenge are decreed from above	Z2
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Ah where is the hero whose nerves strung by youth	A3
Will defend the firm cause of justice and truth	A3
With insatiate desire whose bosom shall swell	O2
To give up the oppressor to judgement and Hell	O2
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For him shall the fair one twine chaplets of bays	H2
To him shall each warrior give merited praise	H2
And triumphant returned from the clangour of arms	H2
He shall find his reward in his loved maiden's charms	H2
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In ecstatic confusion the warrior shall sip	B3
The kisses that glow on his love's dewy lip	B3
And mutual eternal embraces shall prove	Y2
The rewards of the brave are the transports of love	Z2
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OCTOBER	E2
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THE IRISHMAN'S SONG	X
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The stars may dissolve and the fountain of light	H
May sink into ne'er ending chaos and night	H
Our mansions must fall and earth vanish away	Y
But thy courage O Erin may never decay	Y
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See the wide wasting ruin extends all around	H
Our ancestors' dwellings lie sunk on the ground	H
Our foes ride in triumph throughout our domains	H2
And our mightiest heroes lie stretched on the plains	H2
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Ah dead is the harp which was wont to give pleasure	E2
Ah sunk is our sweet country's rapturous measure	E2
But the war note is waked and the clangour of spears	H2
The dread yell of Sloghan yet sounds in our ears	H2
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Ah where are the heroes triumphant in death	C3
Convulsed they recline on the blood sprinkled heath	D3
Or the yelling ghosts ride on the blast that sweeps by	O
And 'my countrymen vengeance ' incessantly cry	O
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OCTOBER	E2
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SONG	X
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Fierce roars the midnight storm	E3
O'er the wild mountain	N
Dark clouds the night deform	E3
Swift rolls the fountain	N
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See o'er yon rocky height	H
Dim mists are flying	J2
See by the moon's pale light	H
Poor Laura's dying	J2
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Shame and remorse shall howl	F3
By her false pillow	E2
Fiercer than storms that roll	S2
O'er the white billow	E2
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No hand her eyes to close	H2
When life is flying	J2
But she will find repose	H2
For Laura's dying	J2
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Then will I seek my love	Z2
Then will I cheer her	E2
Then my esteem will prove	Y2
When no friend is near her	E2
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On her grave I will lie	O
When life is parted	H
On her grave I will die	O
For the false hearted	H
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DECEMBER	E2
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SONG	X
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TO HARRIET	H
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Ah sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain	N
And sweet the mild rush of the soft sighing breeze	H2
And sweet is the glimpse of yon dimly seen mountain	N
'Neath the verdant arcades of yon shadowy trees	H2
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But sweeter than all was thy tone of affection	N
Which scarce seemed to break on the stillness of eve	W2
Though the time it is past yet the dear recollection	N
For aye in the heart of thy Percy must live	R2
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Yet he hears thy dear voice in the summer winds sighing	J2
Mild accents of happiness lisp in his ear	E2
When the hope winged moments athwart him are flying	J2
And he thinks of the friend to his bosom so dear	E2
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And thou dearest friend in his bosom for ever	E2
Must reign unalloyed by the fast rolling year	E2
He loves thee and dearest one never Oh never	E2
Canst thou cease to be loved by a heart so sincere	E2
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AUGUST	H
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NOTE	H
hope winged hoped winged	H
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SONG	X
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TO HARRIET	H
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Stern stern is the voice of fate's fearful command	H
When accents of horror it breathes in our ear	E2
Or compels us for aye bid adieu to the land	H
Where exists that loved friend to our bosom so dear	E2
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'Tis sterner than death o'er the shuddering wretch bending	J2
And in skeleton grasp his fell sceptre extending	J2
Like the heart stricken deer to that loved covert wending	J2
Which never again to his eyes may appear	E2
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And ah he may envy the heart stricken quarry	J
Who bids to the friend of affection farewell	O2
He may envy the bosom so bleeding and gory	J
He may envy the sound of the drear passing knell	O2
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Not so deep is his grief on his death couch reposing	J2
When on the last vision his dim eyes are closing	J2
As the outcast whose love raptured senses are losing	J2
The last tones of thy voice on the wild breeze that swell	O2
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Those tones were so soft and so sad that ah never	E2
Can the sound cease to vibrate on Memory's ear	E2
In the stern wreck of Nature for ever and ever	E2
The remembrance must live of a friend so sincere	E2
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AUGUST	H
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SAINT EDMOND'S EVE	W2
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Oh did you observe the Black Canon pass	H2
And did you observe his frown	G3
He goeth to say the midnight mass	H2
In holy St Edmond's town	G3
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He goeth to sing the burial chaunt	H
And to lay the wandering sprite	H
Whose shadowy restless form doth haunt	H
The Abbey's drear aisle this night	H
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It saith it will not its wailing cease	H2
'Till that holy man come near	E2
'Till he pour o'er its grave the prayer of peace	H2
And sprinkle the hallowed tear	E2
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The Canon's horse is stout and strong	J2
The road is plain and fair	E2
But the Canon slowly wends along	J2
And his brow is gloomed with care	E2
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Who is it thus late at the Abbey gate	H
Sullen echoes the portal bell	O2
It sounds like the whispering voice of fate	H
It sounds like a funeral knell	O2
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The Canon his faltering knee thrice bowed	H
And his frame was convulsed with fear	E2
When a voice was heard distinct and loud	H
'Prepare for thy hour is near '	-
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He crosses his breast he mutters a prayer	E2
To Heaven he lifts his eye	O
He heeds not the Abbot's gazing stare	E2
Nor the dark Monks who murmured by	O
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Bare headed he worships the sculptured saints	H2
That frown on the sacred walls	H2
His face it grows pale he trembles he faints	H2
At the Abbot's feet he falls	H2
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And straight the father's robe he kissed	H
Who cried 'Grace dwells with thee	J
The spirit will fade like the morning mist	H
At your benedicite	H
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'Now haste within the board is spread	H
Keen blows the air and cold	H
The spectre sleeps in its earthy bed	H
'Till St Edmond's bell hath tolled	H
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'Yet rest your wearied limbs to night	H
You've journeyed many a mile	H3
To morrow lay the wailing sprite	H
That shrieks in the moonlight aisle	H3
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'Oh faint are my limbs and my bosom is cold	H
Yet to night must the sprite be laid	H
Yet to night when the hour of horror's told	H
Must I meet the wandering shade	H
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'Nor food nor rest may now delay	Y
For hark the echoing pile	H3
A bell loud shakes Oh haste away	Y
O lead to the haunted aisle '	-
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The torches slowly move before	E2
The cross is raised on high	O
A smile of peace the Canon wore	E2
But horror dimmed his eye	O
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And now they climb the footworn stair	E2
The chapel gates unclose	H2
Now each breathed low a fervent prayer	E2
And fear each bosom froze	H2
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Now paused awhile the doubtful band	H
And viewed the solemn scene	U
Full dark the clustered columns stand	H
The moon gleams pale between	U
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'Say father say what cloisters' gloom	X2
Conceals the unquiet shade	H
Within what dark unhallowed tomb	X2
The corse unblessed was laid '	-
	-
'Through yonder drear aisle alone it walks	H2
And murmurs a mournful plaint	H
Of thee Black Canon it wildly talks	H2
And call on thy patron saint	H
	-
The pilgrim this night with wondering eyes	H2
As he prayed at St Edmond's shrine	U2
From a black marble tomb hath seen it rise	H2
And under yon arch recline '	-
	-
'Oh say upon that black marble tomb	X2
What memorial sad appears '	-
'Undistinguished it lies in the chancel's gloom	X2
No memorial sad it bears'	H2
	-
The Canon his paternoster reads	H2
His rosary hung by his side	H
Now swift to the chancel doors he leads	H2
And untouched they open wide	H
	-
Resistless strange sounds his steps impel	O2
To approach to the black marble tomb	X2
'Oh enter Black Canon ' a whisper fell	O2
'Oh enter thy hour is come '	-
	-
He paused told his beads and the threshold passed	H
Oh horror the chancel doors close	H2
A loud yell was borne on the rising blast	H
And a deep dying groan arose	H2
	-
The Monks in amazement shuddering stand	H
They burst through the chancel's gloom	X2
From St Edmond's shrine lo a skeleton's hand	H
Points to the black marble tomb	X2
	-
Lo deeply engraved an inscription blood red	H
In characters fresh and clear	E2
'The guilty Black Canon of Elmham's dead	H
And his wife lies buried here '	-
	-
In Elmham's tower he wedded a Nun	N
To St Edmond's his bride he bore	E2
On this eve her noviciate here was begun	N
And a Monk's gray weeds she wore	E2
	-
O deep was her conscience dyed with guilt	H
Remorse she full oft revealed	H
Her blood by the ruthless Black Canon was spilt	H
And in death her lips he sealed	H
	-
Her spirit to penance this night was doomed	H
'Till the Canon atoned the deed	H
Here together they now shall rest entombed	H
'Till their bodies from dust are freed	H
	-
Hark a loud peal of thunder shakes the roof	I3
Round the altar bright lightnings play	Y
Speechless with horror the Monks stand aloof	I3
And the storm dies sudden away	Y
	-
The inscription was gone a cross on the ground	H
And a rosary shone through the gloom	X2
But never again was the Canon there found	H
Or the Ghost on the black marble tomb	X2
	-
	-
REVENGE	J3
	-
'Ah quit me not yet for the wind whistles shrill	K3
Its blast wanders mournfully over the hill	K3
The thunder's wild voice rattles madly above	Z2
You will not then cannot then leave me my love '	-
	-
I must dearest Agnes the night is far gone	L3
I must wander this evening to Strasburg alone	M3
I must seek the drear tomb of my ancestors' bones	H2
And must dig their remains from beneath the cold stones	H2
	-
'For the spirit of Conrad there meets me this night	H
And we quit not the tomb 'till dawn of the light	H
And Conrad's been dead just a month and a day	Y
So farewell dearest Agnes for I must away	Y
	-
'He bid me bring with me what most I held dear	E2
Or a month from that time should I lie on my bier	E2
And I'd sooner resign this false fluttering breath	C3
Than my Agnes should dread either danger or death	C3
	-
'And I love you to madness my Agnes I love	Z2
My constant affection this night will I prove	Y2
This night will I go to the sepulchre's jaw	N3
Alone will I glut its all conquering maw'	X2
	-
'No no loved Adolphus thy Agnes will share	E2
In the tomb all the dangers that wait for you there	E2
I fear not the spirit I fear not the grave	L2
My dearest Adolphus I'd perish to save'	L2
	-
'Nay seek not to say that thy love shall not go	J2
But spare me those ages of horror and woe	J2
For I swear to thee here that I'll perish ere day	Y
If you go unattended by Agnes away'	J2
	-
The night it was bleak the fierce storm raged around	H
The lightning's blue fire light flashed on the ground	H
Strange forms seemed to flit and howl tidings of fate	H
As Agnes advanced to the sepulchre gate	H
	-
The youth struck the portal the echoing sound	H
Was fearfully rolled midst the tombstones around	H
The blue lightning gleamed o'er the dark chapel spire	E2
And tinged were the storm clouds with sulphurous fire	E2
	-
Still they gazed on the tombstone where Conrad reclined	H
Yet they shrank at the cold chilling blast of the wind	H
When a strange silver brilliance pervaded the scene	U
And a figure advanced tall in form fierce in mien	U
	-
A mantle encircled his shadowy form	X2
As light as a gossamer borne on the storm	X2
Celestial terror sat throned in his gaze	H2
Like the midnight pestiferous meteor's blaze	H2
	-
SPIRIT	H
Thy father Adolphus was false false as hell	O2
And Conrad has cause to remember it well	O2
He ruined my Mother despised me his son	N
I quitted the world ere my vengeance was done	N
	-
I was nearly expiring 'twas close of the day	Y
A demon advanced to the bed where I lay	Y
He gave me the power from whence I was hurled	H
To return to revenge to return to the world	H
	-
Now Adolphus I'll seize thy best loved in my arms	H2
I'll drag her to Hades all blooming in charms	H2
On the black whirlwind's thundering pinion I'll ride	H
And fierce yelling fiends shall exult o'er thy bride	H
	-
He spoke and extending his ghastly arms wide	H
Majestic advanced with a swift noiseless stride	H
He clasped the fair Agnes he raised her on high	L2
And cleaving the roof sped his way to the sky	L2
	-
All was now silent and over the tomb	X2
Thicker deeper was swiftly extended a gloom	X2
Adolphus in horror sank down on the stone	M3
And his fleeting soul fled with a harrowing groan	M3
	-
DECEMBER	E2
	-
	-
GHASTA OR THE AVENGING DEMON	N
	-
The idea of the following tale was taken from a few unconnected German	N
Stanzas The principal Character is evidently the Wandering Jew and	H
although not mentioned by name the burning Cross on his forehead	H
undoubtedly alludes to that superstition so prevalent in the part of	L2
Germany called the Black Forest where this scene is supposed to lie	L2
	-
Hark the owlet flaps her wing	J2
In the pathless dell beneath	D3
Hark night ravens loudly sing	J2
Tidings of despair and death	C3
	-
Horror covers all the sky	L2
Clouds of darkness blot the moon	N2
Prepare for mortal thou must die	L2
Prepare to yield thy soul up soon	N2
	-
Fierce the tempest raves around	H
Fierce the volleyed lightnings fly	L2
Crashing thunder shakes the ground	H
Fire and tumult fill the sky	L2
	-
Hark the tolling village bell	O2
Tells the hour of midnight come	X2
Now can blast the powers of Hell	O2
Fiend like goblins now can roam	X2
	-
See his crest all stained with rain	G
A warrior hastening speeds his way	Y
He starts looks round him starts again	D2
And sighs for the approach of day	Y
	-
See his frantic steed he reins	H2
See he lifts his hands on high	L2
Implores a respite to his pains	H2
From the powers of the sky	L2
	-
He seeks an Inn for faint from toil	O3
Fatigue had bent his lofty form	X2
To rest his wearied limbs awhile	H3
Fatigued with wandering and the storm	X2
	-
	-
	-
	-
Slow the door is opened wide	H
With trackless tread a stranger came	X2
His form Majestic slow his stride	H
He sate nor spake nor told his name	X2
	-
Terror blanched the warrior's cheek	J2
Cold sweat from his forehead ran	P3
In vain his tongue essayed to speak	J2
At last the stranger thus began	P3
	-
'Mortal thou that saw'st the sprite	H
Tell me what I wish to know	J2
Or come with me before 'tis light	H
Where cypress trees and mandrakes grow	J2
	-
'Fierce the avenging Demon's ire	E2
Fiercer than the wintry blast	H
Fiercer than the lightning's fire	E2
When the hour of twilight's past'	H
	-
The warrior raised his sunken eye	L2
It met the stranger's sullen scowl	F3
'Mortal Mortal thou must die '	-
In burning letters chilled his soul	S2
	-
WARRIOR	E2
Stranger whoso'er you are	E2
I feel impelled my tale to tell	O2
Horrors stranger shalt thou hear	E2
Horrors drear as those of Hell	O2
	-
O'er my Castle silence reigned	H
Late the night and drear the hour	E2
When on the terrace I observed	H
A fleeting shadowy mist to lower	E2
	-
Light the cloud as summer fog	J2
Which transient shuns the morning beam	X2
Fleeting as the cloud on bog	J2
That hangs or on the mountain stream	X2
	-
Horror seized my shuddering brain	G
Horror dimmed my starting eye	L2
In vain I tried to speak In vain	G
My limbs essayed the spot to fly	L2
	-
At last the thin and shadowy form	X2
With noiseless trackless footsteps came	X2
Its light robe floated on the storm	X2
Its head was bound with lambent flame	X2
	-
In chilling voice drear as the breeze	H2
Which sweeps along th' autumnal ground	H
Which wanders through the leafless trees	H2
Or the mandrake's groan which floats around	H
	-
'Thou art mine and I am thine	U2
'Till the sinking of the world	H
I am thine and thou art mine	U2
'Till in ruin death is hurled	H
	-
'Strong the power and dire the fate	H
Which drags me from the depths of Hell	O2
Breaks the tomb's eternal gate	H
Where fiendish shapes and dead men yell	O2
	-
'Haply I might ne'er have shrank	J2
From flames that rack the guilty dead	H
Haply I might ne'er have sank	J2
On pleasure's flowery thorny bed	H
	-
'But stay no more I dare disclose	H2
Of the tale I wish to tell	O2
On Earth relentless were my woes	H2
But fiercer are my pangs in Hell	O2
	-
'Now I claim thee as my love	L2
Lay aside all chilling fear	E2
My affection will I prove	L2
Where sheeted ghosts and spectres are	E2
	-
'For thou art mine and I am thine	U2
'Till the dreaded judgement day	H
I am thine and thou art mine	U2
Night is past I must away '	-
	-
Still I gazed and still the form	X2
Pressed upon my aching sight	H
Still I braved the howling storm	X2
When the ghost dissolved in night	H
	-
Restless sleepless fled the night	H
Sleepless as a sick man's bed	H
When he sighs for morning light	H
When he turns his aching head	H
	-
Slow and painful passed the day	H
Melancholy seized my brain	G
Lingering fled the hours away	H
Lingering to a wretch in pain	G
	-
At last came night ah horrid hour	E2
Ah chilling time that wakes the dead	H
When demons ride the clouds that lower	E2
The phantom sat upon my bed	H
	-
In hollow voice low as the sound	H
Which in some charnel makes its moan	M3
What floats along the burying ground	H
The phantom claimed me as her own	M3
	-
Her chilling finger on my head	H
With coldest touch congealed my soul	S2
Cold as the finger of the dead	H
Or damps which round a tombstone roll	S2
	-
Months are passed in lingering round	H
Every night the spectre comes	H2
With thrilling step it shakes the ground	H
With thrilling step it round me roams	H2
	-
Stranger I have told to thee	J
All the tale I have to tell	O2
Stranger canst thou tell to me	J
How to 'scape the powers of Hell	O2
	-
STRANGER	E2
Warrior I can ease thy woes	H2
Wilt thou wilt thou come with me	J
Warrior I can all disclose	H2
Follow follow follow me	J
	-
Yet the tempest's duskiest wing	J2
Its mantle stretches o'er the sky	L2
Yet the midnight ravens sing	J2
'Mortal Mortal thou must die '	-
	-
At last they saw a river clear	E2
That crossed the heathy path they trod	H
The Stranger's look was wild and drear	E2
The firm Earth shook beneath his nod	H
	-
He raised a wand above his head	H
He traced a circle on the plain	G
In a wild verse he called the dead	H
The dead with silent footsteps came	X2
	-
A burning brilliance on his head	H
Flaming filled the stormy air	E2
In a wild verse he called the dead	H
The dead in motley crowd were there	E2
	-
'Ghasta Ghasta come along	J2
Bring thy fiendish crowd with thee	J
Quickly raise th' avenging Song	J2
Ghasta Ghasta come to me '	-
	-
Horrid shapes in mantles gray	E2
Flit athwart the stormy night	H
'Ghasta Ghasta come away	E2
Come away before 'tis light '	-
	-
See the sheeted Ghost they bring	J2
Yelling dreadful o'er the heath	D3
Hark the deadly verse they sing	J2
Tidings of despair and death	C3
	-
The yelling Ghost before him stands	H2
See she rolls her eyes around	H
Now she lifts her bony hands	H2
Now her footsteps shake the ground	H
	-
STRANGER	E2
Phantom of Theresa say	E2
Why to earth again you came	X2
Quickly speak I must away	E2
Or you must bleach for aye in flame	X2
	-
PHANTOM	X2
Mighty one I know thee now	E2
Mightiest power of the sky	L2
Know thee by thy flaming brow	E2
Know thee by thy sparkling eye	L2
	-
That fire is scorching Oh I came	X2
From the caverned depth of Hell	O2
My fleeting false Rodolph to claim	X2
Mighty one I know thee well	O2
	-
STRANGER	E2
Ghasta seize yon wandering sprite	H
Drag her to the depth beneath	D3
Take her swift before 'tis light	H
Take her to the cells of death	C3
	-
Thou that heardst the trackless dead	H
In the mouldering tomb must lie	L2
Mortal look upon my head	H
Mortal Mortal thou must die	L2
	-
Of glowing flame a cross was there	E2
Which threw a light around his form	X2
Whilst his lank and raven hair	E2
Floated wild upon the storm	X2
	-
The warrior upwards turned his eyes	H2
Gazed upon the cross of fire	E2
There sat horror and surprise	H2
There sat God's eternal ire	E2
	-
A shivering through the Warrior flew	S
Colder than the nightly blast	H
Colder than the evening dew	S
When the hour of twilight's past	H
	-
Thunder shakes th' expansive sky	L2
Shakes the bosom of the heath	D3
'Mortal Mortal thou must die'	H
The warrior sank convulsed in death	C3
	-
JANUARY	J
	-
NOTES	H2
its it	H
What query Which	Q3
	-
	-
FRAGMENT OR THE TRIUMPH OF CONSCIENCE	H2
	-
'Twas dead of the night when I sate in my dwelling	J2
One glimmering lamp was expiring and low	J2
Around the dark tide of the tempest was swelling	J2
Along the wild mountains night ravens were yelling	J2
They bodingly presaged destruction and woe	J2
	-
'Twas then that I started the wild storm was howling	J2
Nought was seen save the lightning that danced on the sky	L2
Above me the crash of the thunder was rolling	J2
And low chilling murmurs the blast wafted by	L2
	-
My heart sank within me unheeded the jar	E2
Of the battling clouds on the mountain tops broke	J2
Unheeded the thunder peal crashed in mine ear	E2
This heart hard as iron was stranger to fear	E2
But conscience in low noiseless whispering spoke	J2
'Twas then that her form on the whirlwind uprearing	J2
The dark ghost of the murdered Victoria strode	H
Her right hand a blood reeking dagger was bearing	J2
She swiftly advanced to my lonesome abode	H
I wildly then called on the tempest to bear me	J

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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