Odes To Nea; Written At Bermuda Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB ACACAAAA DDEEFFAAGAGAHHIIJJKK LL MNMMOMOMAPAP QAQABABA RQ SSTUUT AAVAAV WXYZA2Y B2B2C2D2D2C2 E2E2F2G2G2F2 MMASSA H2JH2J QI2QI2 OGOG J2QJ2Q K2BK2B C2G2L2G2 AAAA M2BM2B J2AJ2A J2G2J2G2 G2AG2A| Greek NEA turannei | A |
| EURPID Medea v | B |
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| Nay tempt me not to love again | A |
| There was a time when love was sweet | C |
| Dear Nea had I known thee then | A |
| Our souls had not been slow to meet | C |
| But oh this weary heart hath run | A |
| So many a time the rounds of pain | A |
| Not even for thee thou lovely one | A |
| Would I endure such pangs again | A |
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| If there be climes where never yet | D |
| The print of beauty's foot was set | D |
| Where man may pass his loveless nights | E |
| Unfevered by her false delights | E |
| Thither my wounded soul would fly | F |
| Where rosy cheek or radiant eye | F |
| Should bring no more their bliss or pain | A |
| Nor fetter me to earth again | A |
| Dear absent girl whose eyes of light | G |
| Though little prized when all my own | A |
| Now float before me soft and bright | G |
| As when they first enamoring shone | A |
| What hours and days have I seen glide | H |
| While fit enchanted by thy side | H |
| Unmindful of the fleeting day | I |
| I've let life's dream dissolve away | I |
| O bloom of youth profusely shed | J |
| O moments I simply vainly sped | J |
| Yet sweetly too or Love perfumed | K |
| The flame which thus my life consumed | K |
| And brilliant was the chain of flowers | L |
| In which he led my victim hours | L |
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| Say Nea say couldst thou like her | M |
| When warm to feel and quick to err | N |
| Of loving fond of roving fonder | M |
| This thoughtless soul might wish to wander | M |
| Couldst thou like her the wish reclaim | O |
| Endearing still reproaching never | M |
| Till even this heart should burn with shame | O |
| And be thy own more fixt than ever | M |
| No no on earth there's only one | A |
| Could bind such faithless folly fast | P |
| And sure on earth but one alone | A |
| Could make such virtue false at last | P |
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| Nea the heart which she forsook | Q |
| For thee were but a worthless shrine | A |
| Go lovely girl that angel look | Q |
| Must thrill a soul more pure than mine | A |
| Oh thou shalt be all else to me | B |
| That heart can feel or tongue can feign | A |
| I'll praise admire and worship thee | B |
| But must not dare not love again | A |
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| tale iter omne cave | R |
| PROPERT lib iv eleg | Q |
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| I pray you let us roam no more | S |
| Along that wild and lonely shore | S |
| Where late we thoughtless strayed | T |
| 'Twas not for us whom heaven intends | U |
| To be no more than simple friends | U |
| Such lonely walks were made | T |
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| That little Bay where turning in | A |
| From ocean's rude and angry din | A |
| As lovers steal to bliss | V |
| The billows kiss the shore and then | A |
| Flow back into the deep again | A |
| As though they did not kiss | V |
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| Remember o'er its circling flood | W |
| In what a dangerous dream we stood | X |
| The silent sea before us | Y |
| Around us all the gloom of grove | Z |
| That ever lent its shade to love | A2 |
| No eye but heaven's o'er us | Y |
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| I saw you blush you felt me tremble | B2 |
| In vain would formal art dissemble | B2 |
| All we then looked and thought | C2 |
| 'Twas more than tongue could dare reveal | D2 |
| 'Twas every thing that young hearts feel | D2 |
| By Love and Nature taught | C2 |
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| I stopped to cull with faltering hand | E2 |
| A shell that on the golden sand | E2 |
| Before us faintly gleamed | F2 |
| I trembling raised it and when you | G2 |
| Had kist the shell I kist it too | G2 |
| How sweet how wrong it seemed | F2 |
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| Oh trust me 'twas a place an hour | M |
| The worst that e'er the tempter's power | M |
| Could tangle me or you in | A |
| Sweet Nea let us roam no more | S |
| Along that wild and lonely shore | S |
| Such walks may be our ruin | A |
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| You read it in these spell bound eyes | H2 |
| And there alone should love be read | J |
| You hear me say it all in sighs | H2 |
| And thus alone should love be said | J |
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| Then dread no more I will not speak | Q |
| Although my heart to anguish thrill | I2 |
| I'll spare the burning of your cheek | Q |
| And look it all in silence still | I2 |
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| Heard you the wish I dared to name | O |
| To murmur on that luckless night | G |
| When passion broke the bonds of shame | O |
| And love grew madness in your sight | G |
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| Divinely through the graceful dance | J2 |
| You seemed to float in silent song | Q |
| Bending to earth that sunny glance | J2 |
| As if to light your steps along | Q |
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| Oh how could others dare to touch | K2 |
| That hallowed form with hand so free | B |
| When but to look was bliss too much | K2 |
| Too rare for all but Love and me | B |
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| With smiling eyes that little thought | C2 |
| How fatal were the beams they threw | G2 |
| My trembling hands you lightly caught | L2 |
| And round me like a spirit flew | G2 |
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| Heedless of all but you alone | A |
| And you at least should not condemn | A |
| If when such eyes before me shone | A |
| My soul forgot all eyes but them | A |
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| I dared to whisper passion's vow | M2 |
| For love had even of thought bereft me | B |
| Nay half way bent to kiss that brow | M2 |
| But with a bound you blushing left me | B |
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| Forget forget that night's offence | J2 |
| Forgive it if alas you can | A |
| 'Twas love 'twas passion soul and sense | J2 |
| 'Twas all that's best and worst in man | A |
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| That moment did the assembled eyes | J2 |
| Of heaven and earth my madness view | G2 |
| I should have seen thro' earth and skies | J2 |
| But you alone but only you | G2 |
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| Did not a frown from you reprove | G2 |
| Myriads of eyes to me were none | A |
| Enough for me to win your love | G2 |
| And die upon the spot when won | A |
Thomas Moore
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