Solomon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HHIJKKLLBBMM NNEOPPQQRRSSTTUUVV LLMMWWXY ZZA2A2B2B2DDC2C2D2D2 E2E2F2F2 QQG2G2H2I2J2J2HHK2K2 L2L2M2M2TTWWN2N2O2F2 KKP2P2Q2Q2R2R2XM2XYB 2B2S2S2 KKLLT2T2J2J2U2U2V2TK KW2W2X2X2WWWW CCY2Z2WWWWA3A3TT WWDWWWMMTT WWA3A3DDWW W2W2MMT2T2B3C3WWV2TM MQQXYD3E3As thro' the Psalms from theme to theme I chang'd | A |
Methinks like Eve in Paradice I rang'd | A |
And ev'ry grace of song I seem'd to see | B |
As the gay pride of ev'ry season she | B |
She gently treading all the walks around | C |
Admir'd the springing beauties of the ground | C |
The lilly glist'ring with the morning dew | D |
The rose in red the violet in blew | D |
The pink in pale the bells in purple rows | E |
And tulips colour'd in a thousand shows | E |
Then here and there perhaps she pull'd a flow'r | F |
To strew with moss and paint her leafy bow'r | F |
And here and there like her I went along | G |
Chose a bright strain and bid it deck my song | G |
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But now the sacred Singer leaves mine eye | H |
Crown'd as he was I think he mounts on high | H |
Ere this Devotion bore his heav'nly psalms | I |
And now himself bears up his harp and palms | J |
Go saint triumphant leave the changing sight | K |
So fitted out you suit the realms of light | K |
But let thy glorious robe at parting go | L |
Those realms have robes of more effulgent show | L |
It flies it falls the flutt'ring silk I see | B |
Thy son has caught it and he sings like thee | B |
With such election of a theme divine | M |
And such sweet grace as conquers all but thine | M |
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Hence ev'ry writer o'er the fabled streams | N |
Where frolick fancies sport with idle dreams | N |
Or round the sight enchanted clouds dispose | E |
Whence wanton cupids shoot with gilded bows | O |
A nobler writer strains more brightly wrought | P |
Themes more exulted fill my wond'ring thought | P |
The parted skies are track'd with flames above | Q |
As love descends to meet ascending love | Q |
The seasons flourish where the spouses meet | R |
And earth in gardens spreads beneath their feet | R |
This fresh bloom prospect in the bosom throngs | S |
When Solomon begins his song of songs | S |
Bids the rap'd soul to Lebanon repair | T |
And lays the scenes of all his action there | T |
Where as he wrote and from the bow'r survey'd | U |
The scenting groves or answ'ring knots he made | U |
His sacred art the sights of nature brings | V |
Beyond their use to figure heav'nly things | V |
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Great son of God whose gospel pleas'd to throw | L |
Round thy rich glory veils of earthly show | L |
Who made the vineyard oft thy church design | M |
Who made the marriage feast a type of thine | M |
Assist my verses which attempt to trace | W |
The shadow'd beauties of celestial grace | W |
And with illapses of seraphick fire | X |
The work which pleas'd thee once once more inspire | Y |
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Look or illusion's airy visions draw | Z |
Or now I walk the gardens which I saw | Z |
Where silver waters feed a flow'ring spring | A2 |
And winds salute it with a balmy wing | A2 |
There on a bank whose shades directly rise | B2 |
To screen the sun and not exclude the skies | B2 |
There sits the sacred church methinks I view | D |
The spouse's aspect and her ensigns too | D |
Her face has features where the virtues reign | C2 |
Her hands the book of sacred love contain | C2 |
A light truth's emblem on her bosom shines | D2 |
And at her side the meekest lamb reclines | D2 |
And oft on heav'nly lectures in the book | E2 |
And oft on heav'n itself she cast a look | E2 |
Sweet humble fervent zeal that works within | F2 |
At length bursts forth and raptures thus begin | F2 |
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Let Him that Him my soul adores above | Q |
In close communions breath his holy love | Q |
For these bless'd words his pleasing lips impart | G2 |
Beyond all cordials chear the fainting heart | G2 |
As rich and sweet the precious ointments stream | H2 |
So rich thy graces flow so sweet thy name | I2 |
Diffuses sacred joy tis hence we find | J2 |
Affection rais'd in ev'ry virgin mind | J2 |
For this we come the daughters here and I | H |
Still draw we forward and behold I fly | H |
I fly through mercy when my king invites | K2 |
To tread his chambers of sincere delights | K2 |
There join'd by mystick union I rejoice | L2 |
Exalt my temper and enlarge my voice | L2 |
And celebrate thy joys supremely more | M2 |
Than earthly bliss thus upright hearts adore | M2 |
Nor you ye maids who breath of Salem's air | T |
Nor you refuse that I conduct you there | T |
Tho' clouding darkness hath eclips'd my face | W |
Dark as I am I shine with beams of grace | W |
As the black tents where Ishmael's line abides | N2 |
With glitt'ring trophies dress their inward sides | N2 |
Or as thy curtains Solomon are seen | O2 |
Whose plaits conceal a golden throne within | F2 |
'Twere wrong to judge me by the carnal sight | K |
And yet my visage was by nature white | K |
But fiery suns which persecute the meek | P2 |
Found me abroad and scorch'd my rosy cheek | P2 |
The world my brethren they were angry grown | Q2 |
They made me dress a vineyard not my own | Q2 |
Among their rites their vines I learn'd to dwell | R2 |
And in the mean employ my beauty fell | R2 |
By frailty lost I gave my labour o'er | X |
And my own vineyard grew deform'd the more | M2 |
Behold I turn O say my soul's desire | X |
Where do'st thou feed thy flock and where retire | Y |
To rest that flock when noon tide heats arise | B2 |
Shepherd of Israel teach my dubious eyes | B2 |
To guide me right for why shou'd thine abide | S2 |
Where wand'ring shepherds turn their flocks aside | S2 |
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So spake the church and sigh'd a purple light | K |
Sprung forth the Godhead stood reveal'd to sight | K |
And heav'n and nature smil'd as white as snow | L |
His seamless vesture loosely fell below | L |
Sedate and pleas'd he nodded round his head | T2 |
The pointed glory shook and thus he said | T2 |
If thou the loveliest of the beauteous kind | J2 |
If thou canst want thy shepherd's walk to find | J2 |
Go by the foot steps where my flocks have trod | U2 |
My saints obedient to the laws of God | U2 |
Go where their tents my teaching servants rear | V2 |
And feed the kids thy young believers there | T |
Shou'd thus my flocks increase my fair delight | K |
I view their numbers and compare the sight | K |
To Pharaoh's Horses when they take the field | W2 |
Beat plains to dust and make the nations yield | W2 |
With rows of gems thy comely cheeks I deck | X2 |
And chains of pendant gold o'erflow thy neck | X2 |
For so like gems the riches of my grace | W |
And so descending glory chears thy face | W |
Gay bridal robes a flow'ring silver strows | W |
Bright gold engrailing on the border glows | W |
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He spake the spouse admiring heard the sound | C |
Then meekly bending on the sacred ground | C |
She cries Oh present to my ravish'd breast | Y2 |
This sweet communion is an inward feast | Z2 |
There sits the king while all around our heads | W |
His grace my Spikenard pleasing odours sheds | W |
About my soul his holy comfort flies | W |
So closely treasur'd in the bosom lies | W |
The bundled myrrhe so sweet the scented gale | A3 |
Breaths all En gedi's aromatick vale | A3 |
Now says the king my love I see thee fair | T |
Thine eyes for mildness with the dove's compare | T |
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No thou belov'd art fair the church replies | W |
Since all my beauties but from thee arise | W |
All fair all pleasant these communions shew | D |
Thy councels pleasant and thy comforts so | W |
And as at marriage feasts they strow the flow'rs | W |
With nuptial chaplets hang the summer bow'rs | W |
And make the rooms of smelling cedars fine | M |
Where the fond bridegroom and the bride recline | M |
I dress my soul with such exceeding care | T |
With such with more to court thy presence there | T |
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Well hast thou prais'd he says the Sharon rose | W |
Through flow'ry fields a pleasing odour throws | W |
The valley lillies ravish'd sense regale | A3 |
And with pure whiteness paint their humble vale | A3 |
Such names of sweetness are thy lover's due | D |
And thou my love be thou a lilly too | D |
A lilly set in thorns for all I see | W |
All other daughters are as thorns to thee | W |
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Then she the trees that pleasing apples yield | W2 |
Surpass the barren trees that cloath the field | W2 |
So you surpass the sons with worth divine | M |
So shade and fruit as well as shade is thine | M |
I sat me down and saw thy branches spread | T2 |
And green protection flourish o'er my head | T2 |
I saw thy fruit the soul's celestial food | B3 |
I pull'd I tasted and I found it good | C3 |
Hence in the spirit to the blissful seats | W |
Where love to feast mysteriously retreats | W |
He led me forth I saw the banner rear | V2 |
And love was pencil'd for the motto there | T |
Prophets and teachers in your care combine | M |
Stay me with apples comfort me with wine | M |
The cordial promises of joys above | Q |
For hope deferr'd has made me sick with love | Q |
Ah while my tongue reveals my fond desire | X |
His hands support me least my life expire | Y |
As round a child the parent's arms are plac'd | D3 |
This holds the head and that | E3 |
Thomas Parnell
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