Oh! Think Not My Spirits Are Always As Light. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEG HIHIJKKKLMLMOh think not my spirits are always as light | A |
And as free from a pang as they seem to you now | B |
Nor expect that the heart beaming smile of to night | A |
Will return with to morrow to brighten my brow | B |
No life is a waste of wearisome hours | C |
Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns | D |
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers | C |
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns | D |
But send round the bowl and be happy awhile | E |
May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here | F |
Than the tear that enjoyment may gild with a smile | E |
And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear | G |
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The thread of our life would be dark Heaven knows | H |
If it were not with friendship and love intertwined | I |
And I care not how soon I may sink to repose | H |
When these blessings shall cease to be dear to my mind | I |
But they who have loved the fondest the purest | J |
Too often have wept o'er the dream they believed | K |
And the heart that has slumbered in friendship securest | K |
Is happy indeed if 'twas never deceived | K |
But send round the bowl while a relic of truth | L |
Is in man or in woman this prayer shall be mine | M |
That the sunshine of love may illumine our youth | L |
And the moonlight of friendship console our decline | M |
Thomas Moore
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