Poems with rhymes of Rhyme Page #5

Some folks tell it in a sto'y, some folks sing de rhyme,
'Peahs to me you ought to hyeahed it, case hit 's ol' ez time.

Keeping a harsh and fitting time
To Saga's chant, and Runic rhyme;

And honest mirth with thoughts divine:
Small thought was his in after time
E'er to be hitched into a rhyme.

Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime,
Still showed a quickness; and maturing time
But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of rhyme.

Just like that bird am I in loss of time,
Whene'er I venture on the stream of rhyme;

Had they a merry chime?
Didst thou hear, from those lofty chambers,
The harp and the minstrel's rhyme?'

Are like the dome of Dante’s clime,
They might have praised your lips, your eyes,
And, eke, your ankles in their rhyme!

Still shalt thou type the poet-soul sublime
That leads the vanward of his timid time
And sings up cowards with commanding rhyme --

But ef they can't write no book, ner rhyme
No ringin' song fer to last all time,

And the `rise and fall of seasons' suits the rise and fall of rhyme,
But we know that western seasons do not run on schedule time;

I too can scrawl, and once upon a time
I pour'd along the town a flood of rhyme,

A non-descript and ever-varying rhyme,
A versified Aurora Borealis,
Which flashes o'er a waste and icy clime.

For I was rather famous in my time,
Until I fairly knock'd it up with rhyme.

Though late I come, long after lily-time,
With burden of waste days and drifted rhyme:

In that strange land of rose and rhyme—
The land of Once upon a Time.

Right gallantly: The sun, in summer-time,
In lazy belts came slipping down the road
To woo me on, with many a glimmering rhyme

Say, will your Tutors give you Time
To write to Hereticks in Rhyme?

"The fear of falsities in rhyme,
In metre, quantity, or time,

Spring at her height on a morn at prime,
Sails that laugh from a flying squall,
Pomp of harmony, rapture of rhyme -

For, as became the festal time,
He cheer'd her heart with tender praise,
And speeches wanting only rhyme