From The High Priest Of Apollo To A Virgin Of Delphi.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEFF CCGGHHAA IIAAJKAAIILLMMNNOOPP QQ RRSSTTGGHHUUMMVWLLXY ZZAAA A2A2B2B2C2C2| Cum digno digna | A |
| SULPICIA | B |
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| Who is the maid with golden hair | C |
| With eye of fire and foot of air | C |
| Whose harp around my altar swells | D |
| The sweetest of a thousand shells | D |
| 'Twas thus the deity who treads | E |
| The arch of heaven and proudly sheds | E |
| Day from his eyelids thus he spoke | F |
| As through my cell his glories broke | F |
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| Aphelia is the Delphic fair | C |
| With eyes of fire and golden hair | C |
| Aphelia's are the airy feet | G |
| And hers the harp divinely sweet | G |
| For foot so light has never trod | H |
| The laurelled caverns of the god | H |
| Nor harp so soft hath ever given | A |
| A sigh to earth or hymn to heaven | A |
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| Then tell the virgin to unfold | I |
| In looser pomp her locks of gold | I |
| And bid those eyes more fondly shine | A |
| To welcome down a Spouse Divine | A |
| Since He who lights the path of years | J |
| Even from the fount of morning's tears | K |
| To where his setting splendors burn | A |
| Upon the western sea maid's urn | A |
| Doth not in all his course behold | I |
| Such eyes of fire such hair of gold | I |
| Tell her he comes in blissful pride | L |
| His lip yet sparkling with the tide | L |
| That mantles in Olympian bowls | M |
| The nectar of eternal souls | M |
| For her for her he quits the skies | N |
| And to her kiss from nectar flies | N |
| Oh he would quit his star throned height | O |
| And leave the world to pine for light | O |
| Might he but pass the hours of shade | P |
| Beside his peerless Delphic maid | P |
| She more than earthly woman blest | Q |
| He more than god on woman's breast | Q |
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| There is a cave beneath the steep | R |
| Where living rills of crystal weep | R |
| O'er herbage of the loveliest hue | S |
| That ever spring begemmed with dew | S |
| There oft the greensward's glossy tint | T |
| Is brightened by the recent print | T |
| Of many a faun and naiad's feet | G |
| Scarce touching earth their step so fleet | G |
| That there by moonlight's ray had trod | H |
| In light dance o'er the verdant sod | H |
| There there the god impassioned said | U |
| Soon as the twilight tinge is fled | U |
| And the dim orb of lunar souls | M |
| Along its shadowy pathway rolls | M |
| There shall we meet and not even He | V |
| The God who reigns immortally | W |
| Where Babel's turrets paint their pride | L |
| Upon the Euphrates' shining tide | L |
| Not even when to his midnight loves | X |
| In mystic majesty he moves | Y |
| Lighted by many an odorous fire | Z |
| And hymned by all Chaldaea's choir | Z |
| E'er yet o'er mortal brow let shine | A |
| Such effluence of Love Divine | A |
| As shall to night blest maid o'er thine | A |
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| Happy the maid whom heaven allows | A2 |
| To break for heaven her virgin vows | A2 |
| Happy the maid her robe of shame | B2 |
| Is whitened by a heavenly flame | B2 |
| Whose glory with a lingering trace | C2 |
| Shines through and deifies her race | C2 |
Thomas Moore
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