Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

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To Harriet -- It Is Not Blasphemy To Hope That Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKALMNOPQRS ATUVWXYZDA2EB2AC2D2E 2AKF2E2G2NG2H2I2XC2Z J2K2L2M2N2O2P2Q2R2S2 T2YU2G2V2W2F2X2Y2OZ2 A3KB3

It is not blasphemy to hope that HeavenA
More perfectly will give those nameless joysB
Which throb within the pulses of the bloodC
And sweeten all that bitterness which EarthD
Infuses in the heaven born soul O thouE
Whose dear love gleamed upon the gloomy pathF
Which this lone spirit travelled drear and coldG
Yet swiftly leading to those awful limitsH
Which mark the bounds of Time and of the spaceI
When Time shall be no more wilt thou not turnJ
Those spirit beaming eyes and look on meK
Until I be assured that Earth is HeavenA
And Heaven is Earth will not thy glowing cheekL
Glowing with soft suffusion rest on mineM
And breathe magnetic sweetness through the frameN
Of my corporeal nature through the soulO
Now knit with these fine fibres I would giveP
The longest and the happiest day that fateQ
Has marked on my existence but to feelR
ONE soul reviving kiss O thou most dearS
'Tis an assurance that this Earth is HeavenA
And Heaven the flower of that untainted seedT
Which springeth here beneath such love as oursU
Harriet let death all mortal ties dissolveV
But ours shall not be mortal The cold handW
Of Time may chill the love of earthly mindsX
Half frozen now the frigid intercourseY
Of common souls lives but a summer's dayZ
It dies where it arose upon this earthD
But ours oh 'tis the stretch of Fancy's hopeA2
To portray its continuance as nowE
Warm tranquil spirit healing nor when ageB2
Has tempered these wild ecstasies and givenA
A soberer tinge to the luxurious glowC2
Which blazing on devotion's pinnacleD2
Makes virtuous passion supersede the powerE2
Of reason nor when life's aestival sunA
To deeper manhood shall have ripened meK
Nor when some years have added judgement's storeF2
To all thy woman sweetness all the fireE2
Which throbs in thine enthusiast heart not thenG2
Shall holy friendship for what other nameN
May love like ours assume not even thenG2
Shall Custom so corrupt or the cold formsH2
Of this desolate world so harden usI2
As when we think of the dear love that bindsX
Our souls in soft communion while we knowC2
Each other's thoughts and feelings can we sayZ
Unblushingly a heartless complimentJ2
Praise hate or love with the unthinking worldK2
Or dare to cut the unrelaxing nerveL2
That knits our love to virtue Can those eyesM2
Beaming with mildest radiance on my heartN2
To purify its purity e'er bendO2
To soothe its vice or consecrate its fearsP2
Never thou second Self Is confidenceQ2
So vain in virtue that I learn to doubtR2
The mirror even of Truth Dark flood of TimeS2
Roll as it listeth thee I measure notT2
By month or moments thy ambiguous courseY
Another may stand by me on thy brinkU2
And watch the bubble whirled beyond his kenG2
Which pauses at my feet The sense of loveV2
The thirst for action and the impassioned thoughtW2
Prolong my being if I wake no moreF2
My life more actual living will containX2
Than some gray veteran s of the world's cold schoolY2
Whose listless hours unprofitably rollO
By one enthusiast feeling unredeemedZ2
Virtue and Love unbending FortitudeA3
Freedom Devotedness and PurityK
That life my Spirit consecrates to youB3

Percy Bysshe Shelley



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