The Grecian Girl's Dream Of The Blessed Islands.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEAABBFF GGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNCCOOPPBBQQRRQQ SSTTGGQQQQQQ QQUUVVNNWWTT QQXXRRQQ QQWWWYEE ZZA2A2OB2BBQQTO HER LOVER | A |
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Was it the moon or was it morning's ray | B |
That call'd thee dearest from these arms away | B |
Scarce hadst thou left me when a dream of night | C |
Came o'er my spirit so distinct and bright | C |
That while I yet can vividly recall | D |
Its witching wonders thou shall hear them all | D |
Methought I saw upon the lunar beam | E |
Two winged boys such as thy muse might dream | E |
Descending from above at that still hour | A |
And gliding with smooth step into my bower | A |
Fair as the beauteous spirits that all day | B |
In Amatha's warm founts imprisoned stay | B |
But rise at midnight from the enchanted rill | F |
To cool their plumes upon some moonlight hill | F |
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At once I knew their mission 'twas to bear | G |
My spirit upward through the paths of air | G |
To that elysian realm from whence stray beams | H |
So oft in sleep had visited my dreams | H |
Swift at their touch dissolved the ties that clung | I |
All earthly round me and aloft I sprung | I |
While heavenward guides the little genii flew | J |
Thro' paths of light refreshed by heaven's own dew | J |
And fanned by airs still fragrant with the breath | K |
Of cloudless climes and worlds that know not death | K |
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Thou knowest that far beyond our nether sky | L |
And shown but dimly to man's erring eye | L |
A mighty ocean of blue ether rolls | M |
Gemmed with bright islands where the chosen souls | M |
Who've past in lore and love their earthly hours | N |
Repose for ever in unfading bowers | N |
That very moon whose solitary light | C |
So often guides thee to my bower at night | C |
Is no chill planet but an isle of love | O |
Floating in splendor through those seas above | O |
And peopled with bright forms aerial grown | P |
Nor knowing aught of earth but love alone | P |
Thither I thought we winged our airy way | B |
Mild o'er its valleys streamed a silvery day | B |
While all around on lily beds of rest | Q |
Reclined the spirits of the immortal Blest | Q |
Oh there I met those few congenial maids | R |
Whom love hath warmed in philosophic shades | R |
There still Leontium on her sage's breast | Q |
Found lore and love was tutored and carest | Q |
And there the clasp of Pythia's gentle arms | S |
Repaid the zeal which deified her charms | S |
The Attic Master in Aspasia's eyes | T |
Forgot the yoke of less endearing ties | T |
While fair Theano innocently fair | G |
Wreathed playfully her Samian's flowing hair | G |
Whose soul now fixt its transmigrations past | Q |
Found in those arms a resting place at last | Q |
And smiling owned whate'er his dreamy thought | Q |
In mystic numbers long had vainly sought | Q |
The One that's formed of Two whom love hath bound | Q |
Is the best number gods or men e'er found | Q |
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But think my Theon with what joy I thrilled | Q |
When near a fount which through the valley rilled | Q |
My fancy's eye beheld a form recline | U |
Of lunar race but so resembling thine | U |
That oh 'twas but fidelity in me | V |
To fly to clasp and worship it for thee | V |
No aid of words the unbodied soul requires | N |
To waft a wish or embassy desires | N |
But by a power to spirits only given | W |
A deep mute impulse only felt in heaven | W |
Swifter than meteor shaft through summer skies | T |
From soul to soul the glanced idea flies | T |
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Oh my beloved how divinely sweet | Q |
Is the pure joy when kindred spirits meet | Q |
Like him the river god whose waters flow | X |
With love their only light through caves below | X |
Wafting in triumph all the flowery braids | R |
And festal rings with which Olympic maids | R |
Have decked his current as an offering meet | Q |
To lay at Arethusa's shining feet | Q |
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Think when he meets at last his fountain bride | Q |
What perfect love must thrill the blended tide | Q |
Each lost in each till mingling into one | W |
Their lot the same for shadow or for sun | W |
A type of true love to the deep they run | W |
'Twas thus | Y |
But Theon 'tis an endless theme | E |
And thou growest weary of my half told dream | E |
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Oh would my love we were together now | Z |
And I would woo sweet patience to thy brow | Z |
And make thee smile at all the magic tales | A2 |
Of starlight bowers and planetary vales | A2 |
Which my fond soul inspired by thee and love | O |
In slumber's loom hath fancifully wove | B2 |
But no no more soon as tomorrow's ray | B |
O'er soft Ilissus shall have died away | B |
I'll come and while love's planet in the west | Q |
Shines o'er our meeting tell thee all the rest | Q |
Thomas Moore
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