Elegy Xxv. To Delia, With Some Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO CKCP GQGQ RSBS TUVU FWFW| Whate'er could Sculpture's curious art employ | A |
| Whate'er the lavish hand of Wealth can shower | B |
| These would I give and every gift enjoy | A |
| That pleased my fair but Fate denies the power | B |
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| Bless'd were my lot to feed the social fires | C |
| To learn the latent wishes of a friend | D |
| To give the boon his native taste admires | E |
| And for my transport on his smile depend | D |
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| Bless'd too is he whose evening ramble strays | F |
| Where droop the sons of Indigence and Care | G |
| His little gifts their gladden'd eyes amaze | F |
| And win at small expence their fondest prayer | G |
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| And oh the joy to shun the conscious light | H |
| To spare the modest blush to give unseen | I |
| Like showers that fall behind the veil of night | H |
| Yet deeply tinge the smiling vales with green | I |
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| But happiest they who drooping realms relieve | J |
| Whose virtues in our cultured vales appear | K |
| For whose sad fate a thousand shepherds grieve | J |
| And fading fields allow the grief sincere | K |
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| To call lost Worth from its oppressive shade | L |
| To fix its equal sphere and see it shine | M |
| To hear it grateful own the generous aid | L |
| This this is transport but must ne'er be mine | M |
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| Faint is my bounded bliss nor I refuse | N |
| To range where daisies open rivers roll | O |
| While prose or song the languid hours amuse | N |
| And sooth the fond impatience of my soul | O |
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| Awhile I'll weave the roofs of jasmine bowers | C |
| And urge with trivial cares the loitering year | K |
| Awhile I'll prune my grove protect my flowers | C |
| Then unlamented press an early bier | P |
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| Of those loved flowers the lifeless corse may share | G |
| Some hireling hand a fading wreath bestow | Q |
| The rest will breathe as sweet will glow as fair | G |
| As when their master smiled to see them glow | Q |
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| The sequent morn shall wake the sylvan quire | R |
| The kid again shall wanton ere 'tis noon | S |
| Nature will smile will wear her best attire | B |
| O let not gentle Delia smile so soon | S |
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| While the rude hearse conveys me slow away | T |
| And careless eyes my vulgar fate proclaim | U |
| Let thy kind tear my utmost worth o'erpay | V |
| And softly sighing vindicate my fame | U |
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| O Delia cheer'd by thy superior praise | F |
| I bless the silent path the Fates decree | W |
| Pleased from the list of my inglorious days | F |
| To raise the moments crown'd with bliss and thee | W |
William Shenstone
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