The Naiads' Music: From A Faun's Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEEFFAA FGHHIIJJKKGGAA LLFFEEFFAA EEFFMMFFNNGGAA| Come ye sorrowful and steep | A |
| Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep | A |
| For our kisses lightlier run | B |
| Than the traceries of the sun | B |
| By the lolling water cast | C |
| Up grey precipices vast | C |
| Lifting smooth and waem and steep | A |
| Out of the palely shimmering deep | A |
| - | |
| Come ye sorrowul and take | D |
| Kisses that are but half awake | D |
| For here are eyes O softer far | E |
| Than the blossom of the star | E |
| Upon the mothy twilit waters | F |
| And here are mouths whose gentle laughters | F |
| Are but the echoes of the deep | A |
| Laughing and murmuring in its sleep | A |
| - | |
| Come ye sorrowful and see | F |
| The raindrops flaming goldenly | G |
| On the stream's eddies overhead | H |
| And dragonflies with drops of red | H |
| In the crisp surface of each wing | I |
| Threading slant rains that flash and sing | I |
| Or under the water lily's cup | J |
| From darkling depths roll slowly up | J |
| The bronze flanks of ancient bream | K |
| Into the hot sun's shattered beam | K |
| Or over a sunk tree's bubbled bole | G |
| The perch stream in a golden shoal | G |
| Come ye sorrowful our deep | A |
| Holds dreams lovelier than sleep | A |
| - | |
| But if ye sons of Sorrow come | L |
| Only wishing to be numb | L |
| Our eyes are sad as bluebell posies | F |
| Our breasts are soft as silken roses | F |
| And our hands are tenderer | E |
| Than he breaths that scarce can stir | E |
| The sunlit eglantine that is | F |
| Murmurous with hidden bees | F |
| Come ye sorrowful and steep | A |
| Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep | A |
| - | |
| Come ye sorrowful for here | E |
| No voices sound but fond and clear | E |
| Of mouths as lorn as is the rose | F |
| That under water doth disclose | F |
| Amid her crimson petals torn | M |
| A heart as golden as the morn | M |
| And here are tresses langourous | F |
| As the weeds wander over us | F |
| And brows as holy and as bland | N |
| As the honey coloured sand | N |
| Lying sun entranced below | G |
| The lazy water's limpid flow | G |
| Come ye sorrowful and steep | A |
| Your tired brows in a nectorous sleep | A |
Robert Nichols
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Naiads' Music: From A Faun's Holiday poem by Robert Nichols
Best Poems of Robert Nichols