To The Small Celandine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFF GGHIHIJJ KKLHLHMM NOPQPRSS TTJEJEUV WWWEWEDD EEXHXWFF YYWZWZKKPANSIES lilies kingcups daisies | A |
Let them live upon their praises | B |
Long as there's a sun that sets | C |
Primroses will have their glory | D |
Long as there are violets | E |
They will have a place in story | D |
There's a flower that shall be mine | F |
'Tis the little Celandine | F |
- | |
Eyes of some men travel far | G |
For the finding of a star | G |
Up and down the heavens they go | H |
Men that keep a mighty rout | I |
I'm as great as they I trow | H |
Since the day I found thee out | I |
Little Flower I'll make a stir | J |
Like a sage astronomer | J |
- | |
Modest yet withal an Elf | K |
Bold and lavish of thyself | K |
Since we needs must first have met | L |
I have seen thee high and low | H |
Thirty years or more and yet | L |
'Twas a face I did not know | H |
Thou hast now go where I may | M |
Fifty greetings in a day | M |
- | |
Ere a leaf is on a bush | N |
In the time before the thrush | O |
Has a thought about her nest | P |
Thou wilt come with half a call | Q |
Spreading out thy glossy breast | P |
Like a careless Prodigal | R |
Telling tales about the sun | S |
When we've little warmth or none | S |
- | |
Poets vain men in their mood | T |
Travel with the multitude | T |
Never heed them I aver | J |
That they all are wanton wooers | E |
But the thrifty cottager | J |
Who stirs little out of doors | E |
Joys to spy thee near her home | U |
Spring is coming Thou art come | V |
- | |
Comfort have thou of thy merit | W |
Kindly unassuming Spirit | W |
Careless of thy neighbourhood | W |
Thou dost show thy pleasant face | E |
On the moor and in the wood | W |
In the lane there's not a place | E |
Howsoever mean it be | D |
But 'tis good enough for thee | D |
- | |
Ill befall the yellow flowers | E |
Children of the flaring hours | E |
Buttercups that will be seen | X |
Whether we will see or no | H |
Others too of lofty mien | X |
They have done as worldlings do | W |
Taken praise that should be thine | F |
Little humble Celandine | F |
- | |
Prophet of delight and mirth | Y |
Ill requited upon earth | Y |
Herald of a mighty band | W |
Of a joyous train ensuing | Z |
Serving at my heart's command | W |
Tasks that are no tasks renewing | Z |
I will sing as doth behove | K |
Hymns in praise of what I love | K |
William Wordsworth
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about To The Small Celandine poem by William Wordsworth
Best Poems of William Wordsworth