Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Lv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMM DDNNKKMMOKEE PPKKQQRRGGSSTTUUVVKK WWXXWWQQIIA | |
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While we invoke the wreathed spring | B |
Resplendent rose to thee we'll sing | B |
Resplendent rose the flower of flowers | C |
Whose breath perfumes the Olympian bowers | C |
Whose virgin blush of chastened dye | D |
Enchants so much our mortal eye | D |
When pleasure's spring tide season glows | E |
The Graces love to wreathe the rose | E |
And Venus in its fresh blown leaves | F |
An emblem of herself perceives | F |
Oft hath the poet's magic tongue | G |
The rose's fair luxuriance sung | G |
And long the Muses heavenly maids | H |
Have reared it in their tuneful shades | H |
When at the early glance of morn | I |
It sleeps upon the glittering thorn | I |
'Tis sweet to dare the tangled fence | J |
To cull the timid floweret thence | J |
And wipe with tender hand away | K |
The tear that on its blushes lay | K |
'Tis sweet to hold the infant stems | L |
Yet dropping with Aurora's gems | L |
And fresh inhale the spicy sighs | M |
That from the weeping buds arise | M |
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When revel reigns when mirth is high | D |
And Bacchus beams in every eye | D |
Our rosy fillets scent exhale | N |
And fill with balm the fainting gale | N |
There's naught in nature bright or gay | K |
Where roses do not shed their ray | K |
When morning paints the orient skies | M |
Her fingers burn with roseate dyes | M |
Young nymphs betray the Rose's hue | O |
O'er whitest arms it kindles thro' | K |
In Cytherea's form it glows | E |
And mingles with the living snows | E |
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The rose distils a healing balm | P |
The beating pulse of pain to calm | P |
Preserves the cold inurn d clay | K |
And mocks the vestige of decay | K |
And when at length in pale decline | Q |
Its florid beauties fade and pine | Q |
Sweet as in youth its balmy breath | R |
Diffuses odor even in death | R |
Oh whence could such a plant have sprung | G |
Listen for thus the tale is sung | G |
When humid from the silvery stream | S |
Effusing beauty's warmest beam | S |
Venus appeared in flushing hues | T |
Mellowed by ocean's briny dews | T |
When in the starry courts above | U |
The pregnant brain of mighty Jove | U |
Disclosed the nymph of azure glance | V |
The nymph who shakes the martial lance | V |
Then then in strange eventful hour | K |
The earth produced an infant flower | K |
Which sprung in blushing glories drest | W |
And wantoned o'er its parent breast | W |
The gods beheld this brilliant birth | X |
And hailed the Rose the boon of earth | X |
With nectar drops a ruby tide | W |
The sweetly orient buds they dyed | W |
And bade them bloom the flowers divine | Q |
Of him who gave the glorious vine | Q |
And bade them on the spangled thorn | I |
Expand their bosoms to the morn | I |
Thomas Moore
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