To Bayard Taylor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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To range deep wrapt along a heavenly heightA
O'erseeing all that man but underseesB
To loiter down lone alleys of delightA
And hear the beating of the hearts of treesB
And think the thoughts that lilies speak in whiteA
By greenwood pools and pleasant passagesB
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With healthy dreams a dream in flesh and soulC
To pace in mighty meditations drawnD
From out the forest to the open knollC
Where much thyme is whence blissful leagues of lawnD
Betwixt the fringing woods to southward rollC
By tender inclinations mad with dawnD
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Ablaze with fires that flame in silver dewE
When each small globe doth glass the morning starF
Long ere the sun sweet smitten through and throughE
With dappled revelations read afarF
Suffused with saintly ecstasies of blueE
As all the holy eastern heavens areF
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To fare thus fervid to what daily toilG
Employs thy spirit in that larger LandH
Where thou art gone to strive but not to moilG
In nothings that do mar the artist's handH
Not drudge unriched as grain rots back to soilG
No profit out of death going yet still at standH
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Giving what life is here in hand to dayI
For that that's in to morrow's bush perchanceB
Of this year's harvest none in the barn to layI
All sowed for next year's crop a dull advanceB
In curves that come but by another wayI
Back to the start a thriftless thrift of antsB
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Whose winter wastes their summer O my FriendJ
Freely to range to muse to toil is thineK
Thine now to watch with Homer sails that bendJ
Unstained by Helen's beauty o'er the brineK
Tow'rds some clean Troy no Hector need defendJ
Nor flame devour or in some mild moon's shineK
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Where amiabler winds the whistle heedL
To sail with Shelley o'er a bluer seaB
And mark Prometheus from his fetters freedL
Pass with Deucalion over ItalyB
While bursts the flame from out his eager reedL
Wild stretching towards the West of destinyB
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Or prone with Plato Shakespeare and a throngM
Of bards beneath some plane tree's cool eclipseB
To gaze on glowing meads where lingering longM
Psyche's large Butterfly her honey sipsB
Or mingling free in choirs of German songM
To learn of Goethe's life from Goethe's lipsB
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These these are thine and we who still are deadN
Do yearn nay not to kill thee back againO
Into this charnel life this lowliheadN
Not to the dark of sense the blinking brainP
The hugged delusion drear the hunger fedN
On husks of guess the monarchy of painP
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The cross of love the wrench of faith the shameQ
Of science that cannot prove proof is the twistN
Of blame for praise and bitter praise for blameQ
The silly stake and tether round the wristN
By fashion fixed the virtue that doth claimQ
The gains of vice the lofty mark that's missedN
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By all the mortal space 'twixt heaven and hellG
The soul's sad growth o'er stationary friendsB
Who hear us from our height not well not wellG
The slant of accident the sudden bendsB
Of purpose tempered strong the gambler's spellG
The son's disgrace the plan that e'er dependsB
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On others' plots the tricks that passion playsB
I loving you you him he none at allG
The artist's pain to walk his blood stained waysB
A special soul yet judged as generalG
The endless grief of art the sneer that slaysB
The war the wound the groan the funeral pallG
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Not into these bright spirit do we yearnR
To bring thee back but oh to be to beB
Unbound of all these gyves to stretch to spurnR
The dark from off our dolorous lids to seeB
Our spark Conjecture blaze and sunwise burnR
And suddenly to stand again by theeB
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Ah not for us not yet by thee to standN
For us the fret the dark the thorn the chillG
For us to call across unto thy LandN
Friend get thee to the minstrels' holy hillG
And kiss those brethren for us mouth and handN
And make our duty to our master WillG
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BaltimoreS

Sidney Lanier



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