Here Will I Take My Rest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCA DEDEFFD GHGHIJG KLKLMML NONOPPN| My lady that did change this house of mine | A |
| Into a heaven when that she dwelt therein | B |
| From head to foot an angel's grace divine | A |
| Enwrapped her pure she was spotless of sin | B |
| Fair as the moon her countenance and wise | C |
| Lords of the kind and tender glance her eyes | C |
| With an abounding loveliness did shine | A |
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| Then said my heart Here will I take my rest | D |
| This city breathes her love in every part | E |
| But to a distant bourne was she addressed | D |
| Alas he knew it not alas poor heart | E |
| The influence of some cold malignant star | F |
| Has loosed my hand that held her lone and far | F |
| She joumeyeth that lay upon my breast | D |
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| Not only did she lift my bosom's veil | G |
| Reveal its inmost secret but her grace | H |
| Drew back the curtain from Heaven's mansions pale | G |
| And gave her there an eternal dwelling place | H |
| The flower strewn river lip and meadows fair | I |
| The rose herself but fleeting treasures were | J |
| Regret and Winter follow in their trail | G |
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| Dear were the days which perished with my friend | K |
| Ah what is left of life now she is dead | L |
| All wisdomless and profitless I spend | K |
| The nightingale his own life's blood doth shed | L |
| When to the kisses of the wind the morn | M |
| Unveils the rose's splendour with his torn | M |
| And jealous breast he dyes her petals red | L |
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| Yet pardon her oh Heart for poor wert thou | N |
| A humble dervish on the dusty way | O |
| Crowned with the crown of empire was her brow | N |
| And in the realms of beauty she bore sway | O |
| But all the joy that Hafiz' hand might hold | P |
| Lay in the beads that morn and eve he told | P |
| Worn with God's praise and see he holds it now | N |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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