Maternal Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG EEHIIJJK LLMMNOPPQQRRQE| Lo at the couch where infant beauty sleeps | A |
| Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps | A |
| She while the lovely babe unconscious lies | B |
| Smiles on her slumb'ring child with pensive eyes | B |
| And weaves a song of melancholy joy | C |
| 'Sleep image of thy father sleep my boy | C |
| No ling'ring hour of sorrow shall be thine | D |
| No sigh that rends thy father's heart and mine | D |
| Bright as his manly sire the son shall be | E |
| In form and soul but ah more blest than he | E |
| Thy fame thy worth thy filial love at last | F |
| Shall soothe his aching heart for all the past | F |
| With many a smile my solitude repay | G |
| And chase the world's ungenerous scorn away | G |
| - | |
| 'And say when summon'd from the world and thee | E |
| I lay my head beneath the willow tree | E |
| And soothe may parted spirit ling'ring near | H |
| Oh wilt thou come at evening hour to shed | I |
| The tears of mem'ry o'er my narrow bed | I |
| With aching temples on thy hand reclined | J |
| Muse on the last 'farewell ' I leave behind | J |
| Breathe a deep sigh to winds that murmur low | K |
| And think on all my love and all my woe ' | - |
| - | |
| So speaks affection ere the infant eye | L |
| Can look regard or brighten in reply | L |
| But when the cherub lip hath learn'd to claim | M |
| A mother's ear by that endearing name | M |
| Soon as the playful innocent can prove | N |
| A tear of pity or a smile of love | O |
| Or cons his murmuring task beneath her care | P |
| Or lisps with holy look his evening prayer | P |
| Or gazing mutely pensive sits to hear | Q |
| The mournful ballad warbled in his ear | Q |
| How fondly looks admiring hope the while | R |
| At every artless tear and every smile | R |
| How glows the joyous parent to descry | Q |
| A guileless bosom true to sympathy | E |
Thomas Campbell
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Maternal Hope poem by Thomas Campbell
Best Poems of Thomas Campbell