To The Marchioness Dowager Of Donegall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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FROM BERMUDA JANUARYA
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Lady where'er you roam whatever landB
Woos the bright touches of that artist handB
Whether you sketch the valley's golden meadsC
Where mazy Linth his lingering current leadsC
Enamored catch the mellow hues that sleepD
At eve on Meillerie's immortal steepD
Or musing o'er the Lake at day's declineE
Mark the last shadow on that holy shrineE
Where many a night the shade of Tell complainsF
Of Gallia's triumph and Helvetia's chainsF
Oh lay the pencil for a moment byG
Turn from the canvas that creative eyeG
And let its splendor like the morning rayH
Upon a shepherd's harp illume my layH
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Yet Lady no for song so rude as mineE
Chase not the wonders of your art divineE
Still radiant eye upon the canvas dwellI
Still magic finger weave your potent spellI
And while I sing the animated smilesJ
Of fairy nature in these sun born islesJ
Oh might the song awake some bright designE
Inspire a touch or prompt one happy lineE
Proud were my soul to see its humble thoughtK
On painting's mirror so divinely caughtL
While wondering Genius as he leaned to traceM
The faint conception kindling into graceM
Might love my numbers for the spark they threwN
And bless the lay that lent a charm to youN
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Say have you ne'er in nightly vision strayedO
To those pure isles of ever blooming shadeO
Which bards of old with kindly fancy placedP
For happy spirits in the Atlantic wasteP
There listening while from earth each breeze that cameQ
Brought echoes of their own undying fameQ
In eloquence of eye and dreams of songR
They charmed their lapse of nightless hours alongR
Nor yet in song that mortal ear might suitS
For every spirit was itself a luteS
Where Virtue wakened with elysian breezeT
Pure tones of thought and mental harmoniesT
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Believe me Lady when the zephyrs blandB
Floated our bark to this enchanted landB
These leafy isles upon the ocean thrownU
Like studs of emerald o'er a silver zoneU
Not all the charm that ethnic fancy gaveV
To blessed arbors o'er the western waveV
Could wake a dream more soothing or sublimeW
Of bowers ethereal and the Spirit's climeW
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Bright rose the morning every wave was stillX
When the first perfume of a cedar hillX
Sweetly awaked us and with smiling charmsY
The fairy harbor woo'd us to its armsY
Gently we stole before the whispering windZ
Through plaintain shades that round like awnings twinedZ
And kist on either side the wanton sailsA2
Breathing our welcome to these vernal valesA2
While far reflected o'er the wave sereneB2
Each wooded island shed so soft a greenB2
That the enamored keel with whispering playH
Through liquid herbage seemed to steal its wayH
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Never did weary bark more gladly glideC2
Or rest its anchor in a lovelier tideC2
Along the margin many a shining domeW
White as the palace of a Lapland gnomeW
Brightened the wave in every myrtle groveD2
Secluded bashful like a shrine of loveE2
Some elfin mansion sparkled through the shadeO
And while the foliage interposing playedO
Lending the scene an ever changing graceM
Fancy would love in glimpses vague to traceM
The flowery capital the shaft the porchF2
And dream of temples till her kindling torchF2
Lighted me back to all the glorious daysG2
Of Attic genius and I seemed to gazeG2
On marble from the rich Pentelio mountH2
Gracing the umbrage of some Naiad's fountH2
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Then thought I too of thee most sweet of allI2
The spirit race that come at poet's callI2
Delicate Ariel who in brighter hoursJ2
Lived on the perfume of these honied bowersJ2
In velvet buds at evening loved to lieG
And win with music every rose's sighG
Though weak the magic of my humble strainK2
To charm your spirit from its orb againL2
Yet oh for her beneath whose smile I singM2
For her whose pencil if your rainbow wingM2
Were dimmed or ruffled by a wintry skyG
Could smooth its feather and relume its dyeG
Descend a moment from your starry sphereN2
And if the lime tree grove that once was dearN2
The sunny wave the bower the breezy hillX
The sparkling grotto can delight you stillX
Oh cull their choicest tints their softest lightH2
Weave all these spells into one dream of nightH2
And while the lovely artist slumbering liesO2
Shed the warm picture o'er her mental eyesO2
Take for the task her own creative spellsP2
And brightly show what song but faintly tellsP2

Thomas Moore



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