Thoughts On The Works Of Providence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHFFIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPNNFFAAQR FFAASSTTUUVVWXYYZZNN A2A2B2B2C2D2A2E2AAKK F2F2NNNNMMNNG2G2H2H2 I2I2J2K2NNSL2FM2AAAN 2N2NNG2G2O2P2Q2Q2MMK 2K2NNR2R2S2S2CCAAT2T 2NNPPMM| Arise my soul on wings enraptur'd rise | A |
| To praise the monarch of the earth and skies | A |
| Whose goodness and benificence appear | B |
| As round its centre moves the rolling year | B |
| Or when the morning glows with rosy charms | C |
| Or the sun slumbers in the ocean's arms | C |
| Of light divine be a rich portion lent | D |
| To guide my soul and favour my intend | E |
| Celestial muse my arduous flight sustain | F |
| And raise my mind to a seraphic strain | F |
| Ador'd for ever be the God unseen | G |
| Which round the sun revolves this vast machine | G |
| Though to his eye its mass a point appears | H |
| Ador'd the God that whirls surrounding spheres | H |
| Which first ordain'd that mighty Sol should reign | F |
| The peerless monarch of th' ethereal train | F |
| Of miles twice forty millions is his height | I |
| And yet his radiance dazzles mortal sight | I |
| So far beneath from him th' extended earth | J |
| Vigour derives and ev'ry flow'ry birth | J |
| Vast through her orb she moves with easy grace | K |
| Around her Phoebus in unbounded space | K |
| True to her course th' impetuous storm derides | L |
| Triumphant o'er the winds and surging tides | L |
| Almighty in these wond'rous works of thine | M |
| What Pow'r what Wisdom and what Goodness shine | M |
| And are thy wonders Lord by men explor'd | N |
| And yet creating glory unador'd | N |
| Creation smiles in various beauty gay | O |
| While day to night and night succeeds to day | O |
| That Wisdom which attends Jehovah's ways | P |
| Shines most conspicuous in the solar rays | P |
| Without them destitute of heat and light | N |
| This world would be the reign of endless night | N |
| In their excess how would our race complain | F |
| Abhorring life how hate its length'ned chain | F |
| From air adust what num'rous ills would rise | A |
| What dire contagion taint the burning skies | A |
| What pestilential vapours fraught with death | Q |
| Would rise and overspread the lands beneath | R |
| Hail smiling morn that from the orient main | F |
| Ascending dost adorn the heav'nly plain | F |
| So rich so various are thy beauteous dies | A |
| That spread through all the circuit of the skies | A |
| That full of thee my soul in rapture soars | S |
| And thy great God the cause of all adores | S |
| O'er beings infinite his love extends | T |
| His Wisdom rules them and his Pow'r defends | T |
| When tasks diurnal tire the human frame | U |
| The spirits faint and dim the vital flame | U |
| Then too that ever active bounty shines | V |
| Which not infinity of space confines | V |
| The sable veil that Night in silence draws | W |
| Conceals effects but shows th' Almighty Cause | X |
| Night seals in sleep the wide creation fair | Y |
| And all is peaceful but the brow of care | Y |
| Again gay Phoebus as the day before | Z |
| Wakes ev'ry eye but what shall wake no more | Z |
| Again the face of nature is renew'd | N |
| Which still appears harmonious fair and good | N |
| May grateful strains salute the smiling morn | A2 |
| Before its beams the eastern hills adorn | A2 |
| Shall day to day and night to night conspire | B2 |
| To show the goodness of the Almighty Sire | B2 |
| This mental voice shall man regardless hear | C2 |
| And never never raise the filial pray'r | D2 |
| To day O hearken nor your folly mourn | A2 |
| For time mispent that never will return | E2 |
| But see the sons of vegetation rise | A |
| And spread their leafy banners to the skies | A |
| All wise Almighty Providence we trace | K |
| In trees and plants and all the flow'ry race | K |
| As clear as in the nobler frame of man | F2 |
| All lovely copies of the Maker's plan | F2 |
| The pow'r the same that forms a ray of light | N |
| That call d creation from eternal night | N |
| Let there be light he said from his profound | N |
| Old Chaos heard and trembled at the sound | N |
| Swift as the word inspir'd by pow'r divine | M |
| Behold the light around its Maker shine | M |
| The first fair product of th' omnific God | N |
| And now through all his works diffus'd abroad | N |
| As reason's pow'rs by day our God disclose | G2 |
| So we may trace him in the night's repose | G2 |
| Say what is sleep and dreams how passing strange | H2 |
| When action ceases and ideas range | H2 |
| Licentious and unbounded o'er the plains | I2 |
| Where Fancy's queen in giddy triumph reigns | I2 |
| Hear in soft strains the dreaming lover sigh | J2 |
| To a kind fair or rave in jealousy | K2 |
| On pleasure now and now on vengeance bent | N |
| The lab'ring passions struggle for a vent | N |
| What pow'r O man thy reason then restores | S |
| So long suspended in nocturnal hours | L2 |
| What secret hand returns the mental train | F |
| And gives improv'd thine active pow'rs again | M2 |
| From thee O man what gratitude should rise | A |
| And when from balmy sleep thou op'st thine eyes | A |
| Let thy first thoughts be praises to the skies | A |
| How merciful our God who thus imparts | N2 |
| O'erflowing tides of joy to human hearts | N2 |
| When wants and woes might be our righteous lot | N |
| Our God forgetting by our God forgot | N |
| Among the mental pow'rs a question rose | G2 |
| What most the image of th' Eternal shows | G2 |
| When thus to Reason so let Fancy rove | O2 |
| Her great companion spoke immortal Love | P2 |
| Say mighty pow'r how long shall strife prevail | Q2 |
| And with its murmurs load the whisp'ring gale | Q2 |
| Refer the cause to Recollection's shrine | M |
| Who loud proclaims my origin divine | M |
| The cause whence heav'n and earth began to be | K2 |
| And is not man immortaliz'd by me | K2 |
| Reason let this most causeless strife subside | N |
| Thus Love pronounc'd and Reason thus reply'd | N |
| Thy birth coelestial queen 'tis mine to own | R2 |
| In thee resplendent is the Godhead shown | R2 |
| Thy words persuade my soul enraptur'd feels | S2 |
| Resistless beauty which thy smile reveals | S2 |
| Ardent she spoke and kindling at her charms | C |
| She clasp'd the blooming goddess in her arms | C |
| Infinite Love where'er we turn our eyes | A |
| Appears this ev'ry creature's wants supplies | A |
| This most is heard in Nature's constant voice | T2 |
| This makes the morn and this the eve rejoice | T2 |
| This bids the fost'ring rains and dews descend | N |
| To nourish all to serve one gen'ral end | N |
| The good of man yet man ungrateful pays | P |
| But little homage and but little praise | P |
| To him whose works arry'd with mercy shine | M |
| What songs should rise how constant how divine | M |
Phillis Wheatley
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