To Giovanni Salzilli, A Roman Poet, In His Illness. Scazons.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMDDNNOOPQRRESTTQQMy halting Muse that dragg'st by choice along | A |
Thy slow slow step in melancholy song | A |
And lik'st that pace expressive of thy cares | B |
Not less than Diopeia's sprightlier airs | B |
When in the dance she beats with measur'd tread | C |
Heav'n's floor in front of Juno's golden bed | C |
Salute Salsillus who to verse divine | D |
Prefers with partial love such lays as mine | D |
Thus writes that Milton then who wafted o'er | E |
From his own nest on Albion's stormy shore | F |
Where Eurus fiercest of th'Aeolian band | G |
Sweeps with ungovern'd rage the blasted land | G |
Of late to more serene Ausonia came | H |
To view her cities of illustrious name | H |
To prove himself a witness of the truth | I |
How wise her elders and how learn'd her Youth | I |
Much good Salsillus and a body free | J |
From all disease that Milton asks for thee | J |
Who now endur'st the languor and the pains | K |
That bile inflicts diffus'd through all thy veins | K |
Relentless malady not mov'd to spare | L |
By thy sweet Roman voice and Lesbian air | L |
Health Hebe's sister sent us from the skies | M |
And thou Apollo whom all sickness flies | M |
Pythius or Paean or what name divine | D |
Soe'er thou chuse haste heal a priest of thine | D |
Ye groves of Faunus and ye hills that melt | N |
With vinous dews where meek Evander dwelt | N |
If aught salubrious in your confines grow | O |
Strive which shall soonest heal your poet's woe | O |
That render'd to the Muse he loves again | P |
He may enchant the meadows with his strain | Q |
Numa reclin'd in everlasting ease | R |
Amid the shade of dark embow'ring trees | R |
Viewing with eyes of unabated fire | E |
His loved Aegeria shall that strain admire | S |
So sooth'd the tumid Tiber shall revere | T |
The tombs of kings nor desolate the year | T |
Shall curb his waters with a friendly rein | Q |
And guide them harmless till they meet the main | Q |
William Cowper
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