Poet William Morris

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The Nymph's Song To Hylas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD DEEFFG GHHIIJJKL CCMMN NOOPPII

I know a little garden closeA
Set thick with lily and red roseB
Where I would wander if I mightC
From dewy dawn to dewy nightC
And have one with me wanderingD
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And though within it no birds singD
And though no pillar'd house is thereE
And though the apple boughs are bareE
Of fruit and blossom would to GodF
Her feet upon the green grass trodF
And I beheld them as beforeG
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There comes a murmur from the shoreG
And in the place two fair streams areH
Drawn from the purple hills afarH
Drawn down unto the restless seaI
The hills whose flowers ne'er fed the beeI
The shore no ship has ever seenJ
Still beaten by the billows greenJ
Whose murmur comes unceasinglyK
Unto the place for which I cryL
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For which I cry both day and nightC
For which I let slip all delightC
That maketh me both deaf and blindM
Careless to win unskill'd to findM
And quick to lose what all men seekN
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Yet tottering as I am and weakN
Still have I left a little breathO
To seek within the jaws of deathO
An entrance to that happy placeP
To seek the unforgotten faceP
Once seen once kiss'd once reft from meI
Anigh the murmuring of the seaI

William Morris



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