The Dream-house Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMFNLOPQR STUVWXYNGZA2B2C2D2E2 F2G2E2H2DI2E2J2J2K2E 2E2L2E2E2E2TE2E2M2J2 GN2O2VJ2P2J2E2J2E2E2 J2E2J2E2Q2J2R2S2E2T2 E2H2GE2J2VJ2U2J2J2J2 E2V2W2X2J2J2Y2J2Often we talk of the house that we will build | A |
For airier and less jostled days than these | B |
We chafe in and send Fancy roaming wide | C |
Down western valleys with a choosing eye | D |
To hover upon this nook or on that | E |
And let the mind like fingers pressing clay | F |
Shape and reshape the mould of an old desire | G |
Spur jogging Time conjure slow years to days | H |
Until tall trees like those far fabled walls | I |
Rise visibly to the mind's music Here | J |
We scoop a terrace under hanging woods | K |
Upon the generous slope of a green hill | L |
That gazes over alluring distances | M |
Listen to our merry children at their play | F |
And see the shadow lengthen from our roof | N |
On plots of garden Fancy busy still | L |
Sows colours for the seasons in those plots | O |
And matches or contrasts the chosen leaves | P |
That are to shade our saunters the clean boughs | Q |
Of aromatic walnut the wild crab | R |
With after snows of blossom fiery fruit | S |
And beeches of a grander race beyond them | T |
Withdrawing into uninvaded wood | U |
But farther down our orchard falls to where | V |
The stream makes a live murmur all day long | W |
Man is a builder born not for the shell | X |
That makes him armour against stripping wind | Y |
And frost and darkness for befriending roof | N |
And walls to sally from a bread getter | G |
No but as out of mere unmeaning sound | Z |
And the wild silence he has made himself | A2 |
Marvellous words and the order of sweet speech | B2 |
Breathing and singing syllables that move | C2 |
Out of the caverns of his heart like waves | D2 |
Into the world beyond discovery so | E2 |
Builds he projecting memory and strong hope | F2 |
And dear and dark experience into stone | G2 |
And the warm earth he digs in and reshapes | E2 |
Dyeing them human and with a subtle touch | H2 |
Discovering far kinships in the sky | D |
And the altering season till the very cloud | I2 |
Brings its own shadow as to familiar haunts | E2 |
And the sun rests as on a place it sought | J2 |
Earth also as with a soft step unperceived | J2 |
Draws from her ancient silence nearer him | K2 |
Sending wild birds to nest beneath his eaves | E2 |
Or to shake songs about him as he walks | E2 |
Shy friends the airy playmates of his joy | L2 |
Caesars may hoist their towers and heave their walls | E2 |
Into a stark magnificence impose | E2 |
The aggrandised image of themselves as trumpets | E2 |
Shattering stillness We'll not envy them | T |
While there's a garden to companion us | E2 |
And earth to meet us with her gentle moss | E2 |
Upon our own walls They may entertain | M2 |
Prodigally a thousand guests unpleased | J2 |
But we have always one guest that is ever | G |
Lovely and gracious and acceptable | N2 |
Light As I lay upon a hill top's turf | O2 |
I watched the wide light filling the round air | V |
And I was filled with its felicity | J2 |
O the carriage of the light among the corn | P2 |
When the glory of the wind dishevels it | J2 |
How it filters into the dim domes of trees | E2 |
Spilt down their green height shadows dropping gold | J2 |
How beautiful its way upon the hills | E2 |
At morning and at evening when the blades | E2 |
Of grass blow luminous every little blade | J2 |
How the flowers drink it happy to the roots | E2 |
This lovely guest is ours to lodge and we | J2 |
Will build for it escapes and entrances | E2 |
And corners to waylay the early beam | Q2 |
And keep its last of lingering here to accept | J2 |
Its royalty of fullness there to catch | R2 |
In dusky cool one lustre on the floor | S2 |
Doubling itself in echoed radiances | E2 |
Mellow as an old golden wine on wall | T2 |
And ceiling oh how gentle a touch it has | E2 |
On choice books and smooth burnished wood in such | H2 |
Human captivity When the winds roar over | G |
What sudden splendours toss into our peace | E2 |
With reappearing victories O the glory | J2 |
Of morning through a doorway on the hair | V |
Neck arms young movements of a laughing child | J2 |
O mystery of brightness when we wake | U2 |
In the night hush and see upon the blind | J2 |
The trembling of the shadow of a tree | J2 |
Kissed by the moon that from the buried light | J2 |
Wooes ghostliness of beauty and receives | E2 |
And whispers it to all the world asleep | V2 |
Whatever it be made of this dreamed home | W2 |
Upon a hill I know not in what vale | X2 |
Shall be a little palace for the light | J2 |
To stray and sleep in and be blest for it | J2 |
So thought I then I thought O my dear Love | Y2 |
Surely I am that house and you the light | J2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Dream-house poem by Robert Laurence Binyon
Best Poems of Robert Laurence Binyon