Vignettes Overseas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEAFADDAGAAHDHDF FHHIIHAJDJHKLKEDEDEH MDMNODOHPDDDQRFRHSHT HDDMDDMHDHNHAHNBUBVH HAADDAWAQAXANHDHDYHZ H

I Off GilbatrarA
BEYOND the sleepy hills of SpainB
The sun goes down in yellow mistC
The sky is fresh with dewy starsD
Above a sea of amethystC
Yet in the city of my loveE
High noon burns all the heavens bareA
For him the happiness of lightF
For me a delicate despairA
II Off AlgeirsD
Oh give me neither love nor tearsD
Nor dreams that sear the night with fireA
Go lightly on your pilgrimageG
Unburdened by desireA
Forget me for a month a yearA
But oh beloved think of meH
When unexpected beauty burnsD
Like sudden sunlight on the seaH
III NaplesD
Nisida and Prosida are laughing in the lightF
Capri is a dewy flower lifting into sightF
Posilipo kneels and looks in the burnished seaH
Naples crowds her million roofs close as close can beH
Round about the mountain's crest a flag of smoke is hungI
Oh when God made Italy he was gay and youngI
IV CapriH
When beauty grows too great to bearA
How shall I ease me of its acheJ
For beauty more than bitternessD
Makes the heart breakJ
Now while I watch the dreaming seaH
With isles like flowers against her breastK
Only one voice in all the worldL
Could give me restK
V Night Song at AmalfiE
I asked the heaven of starsD
What I should give my loveE
It answered me with silenceD
Silence aboveE
I asked the darkened seaH
Down where the fishers goM
It answered me with silenceD
Silence belowM
Oh I could give him weepingN
Or I could give him songO
But how can I give silenceD
My whole life longO
VI Ruins of PaestumH
On lowlands where the temples lieP
The marsh grass mingles with the flowersD
Only the little songs of birdsD
Link the unbroken hoursD
So in the end above my heartQ
Once like the city wild and gayR
The slow white stars will pass by nightF
The swift brown birds by dayR
VII RomeH
Oh for the rising moonS
Over the roofs of RomeH
And swallows in the duskT
Circling a darkened domeH
Oh for the measured dawnsD
That pass with folded wingsD
How can I let them goM
With unremembered thingsD
FlorenceD
The bells ring over the ArnoM
Midnight the long long chimeH
Here in the quivering darknessD
I am afraid of timeH
Oh gray bells cease your tollingN
Time takes too much from meH
And yet to rock and riverA
He gives eternityH
Villa Serbelloni BellaggioN
The fountain shivers lightly in the rainB
The laurels drip the fading roses fallU
The marble satyr plays a mournful strainB
That leaves the rainy fragrance musicalV
Oh dripping laurel Phoebus sacred treeH
Would that swift Daphne's lot might come to meH
Then would I still my soul and for an hourA
Change to a laurel in the glancing showerA
X StresaD
The moon grows out of the hillsD
A yellow flowerA
The lake is a dreamy brideW
Who waits her hourA
Beauty has filled my heartQ
It can hold no moreA
It is full as the lake is fullX
From shore to shoreA
XI HamburgN
The day that I come homeH
What will you find to sayD
Words as light as foamH
With laughter light as sprayD
Yet say what words you willY
The day that I come homeH
I shall hear the whole deep oceanZ
Beating under the foamH

Sara Teasdale



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