Vignettes Overseas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEAFADDAGAAHDHDF FHHIIHAJDJHKLKEDEDEH MDMNODOHPDDDQRFRHSHT HDDMDDMHDHNHAHNBUBVH HAADDAWAQAXANHDHDYHZ HI Off Gilbatrar | A |
BEYOND the sleepy hills of Spain | B |
The sun goes down in yellow mist | C |
The sky is fresh with dewy stars | D |
Above a sea of amethyst | C |
Yet in the city of my love | E |
High noon burns all the heavens bare | A |
For him the happiness of light | F |
For me a delicate despair | A |
II Off Algeirs | D |
Oh give me neither love nor tears | D |
Nor dreams that sear the night with fire | A |
Go lightly on your pilgrimage | G |
Unburdened by desire | A |
Forget me for a month a year | A |
But oh beloved think of me | H |
When unexpected beauty burns | D |
Like sudden sunlight on the sea | H |
III Naples | D |
Nisida and Prosida are laughing in the light | F |
Capri is a dewy flower lifting into sight | F |
Posilipo kneels and looks in the burnished sea | H |
Naples crowds her million roofs close as close can be | H |
Round about the mountain's crest a flag of smoke is hung | I |
Oh when God made Italy he was gay and young | I |
IV Capri | H |
When beauty grows too great to bear | A |
How shall I ease me of its ache | J |
For beauty more than bitterness | D |
Makes the heart break | J |
Now while I watch the dreaming sea | H |
With isles like flowers against her breast | K |
Only one voice in all the world | L |
Could give me rest | K |
V Night Song at Amalfi | E |
I asked the heaven of stars | D |
What I should give my love | E |
It answered me with silence | D |
Silence above | E |
I asked the darkened sea | H |
Down where the fishers go | M |
It answered me with silence | D |
Silence below | M |
Oh I could give him weeping | N |
Or I could give him song | O |
But how can I give silence | D |
My whole life long | O |
VI Ruins of Paestum | H |
On lowlands where the temples lie | P |
The marsh grass mingles with the flowers | D |
Only the little songs of birds | D |
Link the unbroken hours | D |
So in the end above my heart | Q |
Once like the city wild and gay | R |
The slow white stars will pass by night | F |
The swift brown birds by day | R |
VII Rome | H |
Oh for the rising moon | S |
Over the roofs of Rome | H |
And swallows in the dusk | T |
Circling a darkened dome | H |
Oh for the measured dawns | D |
That pass with folded wings | D |
How can I let them go | M |
With unremembered things | D |
Florence | D |
The bells ring over the Arno | M |
Midnight the long long chime | H |
Here in the quivering darkness | D |
I am afraid of time | H |
Oh gray bells cease your tolling | N |
Time takes too much from me | H |
And yet to rock and river | A |
He gives eternity | H |
Villa Serbelloni Bellaggio | N |
The fountain shivers lightly in the rain | B |
The laurels drip the fading roses fall | U |
The marble satyr plays a mournful strain | B |
That leaves the rainy fragrance musical | V |
Oh dripping laurel Phoebus sacred tree | H |
Would that swift Daphne's lot might come to me | H |
Then would I still my soul and for an hour | A |
Change to a laurel in the glancing shower | A |
X Stresa | D |
The moon grows out of the hills | D |
A yellow flower | A |
The lake is a dreamy bride | W |
Who waits her hour | A |
Beauty has filled my heart | Q |
It can hold no more | A |
It is full as the lake is full | X |
From shore to shore | A |
XI Hamburg | N |
The day that I come home | H |
What will you find to say | D |
Words as light as foam | H |
With laughter light as spray | D |
Yet say what words you will | Y |
The day that I come home | H |
I shall hear the whole deep ocean | Z |
Beating under the foam | H |
Sara Teasdale
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