At The Funeral Of A Minor Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHAIAJKAALAMNOA CPAOAOFQAAANROOAASTA COPOAUOVAAOTOWAAXAOO YPOUOOOA

One of the Bearers SoliloquizesA
-
Room in your heart for him O Mother EarthB
Who loved each flower and leaf that made you fairC
And sang your praises in verses manifoldD
And delicate with here and there a lineE
From end to end in blossom like a boughF
The May breathes on so rich it was Some thoughtG
The workmanship more costly than the thingH
Moulded or carved as in those ornamentsA
Found at Myc ne And yet Nature's selfI
Works in this wise upon a blade of grassA
Or what small note she lends the woodland thrushJ
Lavishing endless patience He was bornK
Artist not artisan which some few sawA
And many dreamed not As he wrote no odesA
When Croesus wedded or M cenas diedL
And gave no breath to civic feasts and showsA
He missed the glare that gilds more facile menM
A twilight poet groping quite aloneN
Belated in a sphere where every nestO
Is emptied of its music and its wingsA
Not great his gift yet we can poorly spareC
Even his slight perfection in an ageP
Of limping triolets and tame rondeauxA
He had at least ideals though unreachedO
And heard far off immortal harmoniesA
Such as fall coldly on our ear to dayO
The mighty Zolastic Movement nowF
Engrosses us a miasmatic breathQ
Blown from the slums We paint life as it isA
The hideous side of it with careful painsA
Making a god of the dull CommonplaceA
For have we not the old gods overthrownN
And set up strangest idols We would clipR
Imagination's wing and kill delightO
Our sole art being to leave nothing outO
That renders art offensive Not for usA
Madonnas leaning from their starry thronesA
Ineffable nor any heaven wrought dreamS
Of sculptor or of poet we preferT
Such nightmare visions as in morbid brainsA
Take shape and substance thoughts that taint the airC
And make all life unlovely Will it lastO
Beauty alone endures from age to ageP
From age to age endures handmaid of GodO
Poets who walk with her on earth go henceA
Bearing a talisman You bury oneU
With his hushed music in some Potter's FieldO
The snows and rains blot out his very nameV
As he from life seems blotted through Time's glassA
Slip the invisible and magic sandsA
That mark the century then falls a dayO
The world is suddenly conscious of a flowerT
Imperishable ever to be prizedO
Sprung from the mould of a forgotten graveW
'T is said the seeds wrapt up among the balmsA
And hieroglyphics of Egyptian kingsA
old strange vitality and planted growX
After the lapse of thrice a thousand yearsA
Some day perchance some unregarded noteO
Of our poor friend here some sweet minor chordO
That failed to lure our more accustomed earY
Way witch the fancy of an unborn ageP
Who knows since seeds have such tenacityO
Meanwhile he's dead with scantiest laurel wonU
And little of our Ninteenth Century goldO
So take him Earth and this his mortal partO
With that shrewd alchemy thou hast transmuteO
To flower and leaf in thine unending springsA

Thomas Bailey Aldrich



Rate:
(1)



Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme

Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation


Write your comment about At The Funeral Of A Minor Poet poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich


 

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 4 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Popular Poets