Reflections On Having Left A Place Of Retirement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACADEFGHIFJKLEMNAOP QRIST UVWVXYVZVAA2B2VVC2VD 2 E2VVF2VG2FH2NI2J2C2V K2VVL2VVV M2N2VBAVO2VP2Sermoni propriora Hor | A |
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Low was our pretty Cot our tallest Rose | B |
Peep'd at the chamber window We could hear | A |
At silent noon and eve and early morn | C |
The Sea's faint murmur In the open air | A |
Our Myrtles blossom'd and across the porch | D |
Thick Jasmins twined the little landscape round | E |
Was green and woody and refresh'd the eye | F |
It was a spot which you might aptly call | G |
The Valley of Seclusion Once I saw | H |
Hallowing his Sabbath day by quietness | I |
A wealthy son of commerce saunter by | F |
Bristowa's citizen methought it calm'd | J |
His thirst of idle gold and made him muse | K |
With wiser feelings for he paus'd and look'd | L |
With a pleas'd sadness and gaz'd all around | E |
Then eyed our Cottage and gaz'd round again | M |
And sigh'd and said it was a Blessed Place | N |
And we were bless'd Oft with patient ear | A |
Long listening to the viewless sky lark's note | O |
Viewless or haply for a moment seen | P |
Gleaming on sunny wings in whisper'd tones | Q |
I've said to my Beloved 'Such sweet Girl | R |
The inobtrusive song of Happiness | I |
Unearthly minstrelsy then only heard | S |
When the Soul seeks to hear when all is hush'd | T |
And the Heart listens ' | - |
But the time when first | U |
From that low Dell steep up the stony Mount | V |
I climb'd with perilous toil and reach'd the top | W |
Oh what a goodly scene the bleak mount | V |
The bare bleak mountain speckled thin with sheep | X |
Grey clouds that shadowing spot the sunny fields | Y |
And river now with bushy rocks o'erbrow'd | V |
Now winding bright and full with naked banks | Z |
And seats and lawns the Abbey and the wood | V |
And cots and hamlets and faint city spire | A |
The Channel the Islands and white sails | A2 |
Dim coasts and cloud like hills and shoreless Ocean | B2 |
It seem'd like Omnipresence God methought | V |
Had built him there a Temple the whole World | V |
Seem'd in its vast circumference | C2 |
No profan'd my overwhelmed heart | V |
Blest hour It was a luxury to be | D2 |
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Ah quiet Dell dear Cot and Mount sublime | E2 |
I was constrain'd to quit you Was it right | V |
While my unnumber'd brethren toil'd and bled | V |
That I should dream away the entrusted hours | F2 |
On rose leaf beds pampering the coward heart | V |
With feelings all too delicate for use | G2 |
Sweet is the tear that from some Howard's eye | F |
Drops on the cheek of one he lifts from earth | H2 |
And he that works me good with unmov'd face | N |
Does it but half he chills me while he aids | I2 |
My benefactor not my brother man | J2 |
Yet even this this cold beneficence | C2 |
Praise praise it O my Soul oft as thou scann'st | V |
The sluggard Pity's vision weaving tribe | K2 |
Who sigh for Wretchedness yet shun the Wretched | V |
Nursing in some delicious solitude | V |
Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies | L2 |
I therefore go and join head heart and hand | V |
Active and firm to fight the bloodless fight | V |
Of Science Freedom and the Truth in Christ | V |
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Yet oft when after honourable toil | M2 |
Rests the tir'd mind and waking loves to dream | N2 |
My spirit shall revisit thee dear Cot | V |
Thy Jasmin and thy window peeping Rose | B |
And Myrtles fearless of the mild sea air | A |
And I shall sigh fond wishes sweet Abode | V |
Ah had none greater And that all had such | O2 |
It might be so but the time is not yet | V |
Speed it O Father Let thy Kingdom come | P2 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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