A Hymn To Contentment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FGAAHIJKLLMMCCNNBBCC OO FPQQ RRSTUUVVCCQ WWXXYZMA2B2B2C2C2D2D 2 HHB2B2KJE2E2IIF2F2 G2G2H2H2Lovely lasting peace of mind | A |
Sweet delight of human kind | A |
Heavenly born and bred on high | B |
To crown the fav'rites of the sky | B |
With more of happiness below | C |
Than victors in a triumph know | C |
Whither O whither art thou fled | D |
To lay thy meek contented head | D |
What happy region dost thou please | E |
To make the seat of calms and ease | E |
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Ambition searches all its sphere | F |
Of pomp and state to meet thee there | G |
Increasing Avarice would find | A |
Thy presence in its gold enshrin'd | A |
The bold advent'rer ploughs his way | H |
Through rocks amidst the foaming sea | I |
To gain thy love and then perceives | J |
Thou wert not in the rocks and waves | K |
The silent heart which grief assails | L |
Treads soft and lonesome o'er the vales | L |
Sees daisies open rivers run | M |
And seeks as I have vainly done | M |
Amusing thought but learns to know | C |
That solitude's the nurse of woe | C |
No real happiness is found | N |
In trailing purple o'er the ground | N |
Or in a soul exalted high | B |
To range the circuit of the sky | B |
Converse with stars above and know | C |
All nature in its forms below | C |
The rest it seeks in seeking dies | O |
And doubts at last for knowledge rise | O |
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Lovely lasting peace appear | F |
This world itself if thou art here | P |
Is once again with Eden blest | Q |
And man contains it in his breast | Q |
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'Twas thus as under shade I stood | R |
I sung my wishes to the wood | R |
And lost in thought no more perceiv'd | S |
The branches whisper as they wav'd | T |
It seem'd as all the quiet place | U |
Confess'd the presence of the Grace | U |
When thus she spoke 'Go rule thy will | V |
Bid thy wild passions all be still | V |
Know God and bring thy heart to know | C |
The joys which from religion flow | C |
Then ev'ry Grace shall prove its guest | Q |
And I'll be there to crown the rest ' | - |
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Oh by yonder mossy seat | W |
In my hours of sweet retreat | W |
Might I thus my soul employ | X |
With sense of gratitude and joy | X |
Rais'd as ancient prophets were | Y |
In heavenly vision praise and pray'r | Z |
Pleasing all men hurting none | M |
Pleas'd and bless'd with God alone | A2 |
Then while the gardens take my sight | B2 |
With all the colours of delight | B2 |
While silver waters glide along | C2 |
To please my ear and court my song | C2 |
I'll lift my voice and tune my string | D2 |
And thee great source of nature sing | D2 |
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The sun that walks his airy way | H |
To light the world and give the day | H |
The moon that shines with borrow'd light | B2 |
The stars that gild the gloomy night | B2 |
The seas that roll unnumber'd waves | K |
The wood that spreads its shady leaves | J |
The field whose ears conceal the grain | E2 |
The yellow treasure of the plain | E2 |
All of these and all I see | I |
Should be sung and sung by me | I |
They speak their maker as they can | F2 |
But want and ask the tongue of man | F2 |
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Go search among your idle dreams | G2 |
Your busy or your vain extremes | G2 |
And find a life of equal bliss | H2 |
Or own the next begun in this | H2 |
Thomas Parnell
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