Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To The Rev. George Coleridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZA2VB2C2AD2 JKE2F2E2G2H2I2I2I2UF AKJ2K2L2I2AFDJSCM2VN 2O2I2P2Q2I2 I2R2E2Q2RI2V I2S2I2RJ2T2U2

Notus in fratres animi paterniA
Hor Carm lib IIB
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A bless eacute d lot hath he who having passedC
His youth and early manhood in the stirD
And turmoil of the world retreats at lengthE
With cares that move not agitate the heartF
To the same dwelling where his father dweltG
And haply views his tottering little onesH
Embrace those ag eacute d knees and climb that lapI
On which first kneeling his own infancyJ
Lisp'd its brief prayer Such O my earliest FriendK
Thy lot and such thy brothers too enjoyL
At distance did ye climb Life's upland roadM
Yet cheered and cheering now fraternal loveN
Hath drawn you to one centre Be your daysO
Holy and blest and blessing may ye liveP
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To me the Eternal Wisdom hath dispens'dQ
A different fortune and more different mindR
Me from the spot where first I sprang to lightS
Too soon transplanted ere my soul had fix'dT
Its first domestic loves and hence through lifeU
Chasing chance started friendships A brief whileV
Some have preserved me from life's pelting illsW
But like a tree with leaves of feeble stemX
If the clouds lasted and a sudden breezeY
Ruffled the boughs they on my head at onceZ
Dropped the collected shower and some most falseA2
False and fair foliag'd as the ManchineelV
Have tempted me to slumber in their shadeB2
E'en mid the storm then breathing subtlest dampsC2
Mix'd their own venom with the rain from HeavenA
That I woke poison'd But all praise to HimD2
Who gives us all things more have yielded meJ
Permanent shelter and beside one FriendK
Beneath the impervious covert of one oakE2
I've rais'd a lowly shed and know the namesF2
Of Husband and of Father not unhearingE2
Of that divine and nightly whispering VoiceG2
Which from my childhood to maturer yearsH2
Spake to me of predestinated wreathsI2
Bright with no fading coloursI2
Yet at timesI2
My soul is sad that I have roam'd through lifeU
Still most a stranger most with naked heartF
At mine own home and birth place chiefly thenA
When I remember thee my earliest FriendK
Thee who didst watch my boyhood and my youthJ2
Didst trace my wanderings with a father's eyeK2
And boding evil yet still hoping goodL2
Rebuk'd each fault and over all my woesI2
Sorrow'd in silence He who counts aloneA
The beatings of the solitary heartF
That Being knows how I have lov'd thee everD
Lov'd as a brother as a son rever'd theeJ
Oh 'tis to me an ever new delightS
To talk of thee and thine or when the blastC
Of the shrill winter rattling our rude sashM2
Endears the cleanly hearth and social bowlV
Or when as now on some delicious eveN2
We in our sweet sequester'd orchard plotO2
Sit on the tree crook'd earth ward whose old boughsI2
That hang above us in an arborous roofP2
Stirr'd by the faint gale of departing MayQ2
Send their loose blossoms slanting o'er our headsI2
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Nor dost not thou sometimes recall those hoursI2
When with the joy of hope thou gavest thine earR2
To my wild firstling lays Since then my songE2
Hath sounded deeper notes such as beseemQ2
Or that sad wisdom folly leaves behindR
Or such as tuned to these tumultuous timesI2
Cope with the tempest's swellV
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These various strainsI2
Which I have fram'd in many a various moodS2
Accept my Brother and for some perchanceI2
Will strike discordant on thy milder mindR
If aught of error or intemperate truthJ2
Should meet thine ear think thou that riper AgeT2
Will calm it down and let thy love forgive itU2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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