Poems with rhymes of Rhyme Page #8

The rigor of a frozen clime,
The harshness of an untaught ear,
The jarring words of one whose rhyme

Of magic keep me safe to rhyme
In this Heaven beyond my time.

And I, though born in a colder clime,
Do feel mine inward heat as great, I know it;
He never had more faith, although more rhyme;

With a tawny tread sublime--
So your name moves, Leonora,
Down my desert rhyme.

Are you---poor, sick, old ere your time---
Nearer one whit your own sublime
Than we who never have turned a rhyme?

Grow centres for the art uv weavin' rhyme,
Wiv dinky 'arps fer blokes to plunk upon,
An' spruiking poits workin' overtime.

With Shakespeare: bludgeons brainingly sublime
On you the excommunicates of Rhyme,

I grieve to see you waste your Time,
And turn your Thoughts so much to Rhyme,

She had danced too long at one time,
And that put a stop to the merry hop,
And that brings an end to my rhyme.

Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,
And though they be outstripped by every pen,
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,

Over their beauties, earthly, or sublime:
And often, when I sit me down to rhyme,

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme,
On whom strange madness and rank fury fell,
A man esteemed so wise in former time;

And death the waking time;
If day had not a beam, my Love,
And night had not a rhyme, —

Yes, we'll redeem the wasted time,
And to neglected studies flee;
We'll build again the lofty rhyme,

And my step keep time
In the dusk and dew
With yours in blithesome rhyme;

There's nothing here sublime,
But just a roving rhyme,

Who dares in prose and heart-awakening rhyme,
Bright hopes to breathe and bitter truths to tell?
Oh! dangerous criminal, repent thy crime,

It is (in fact) the evening--that pure and pleasant time,
When stars break into splendour, and poets into rhyme;

To the kind reader of our sober clime
This way of writing will appear exotic;
Pulci was sire of the half-serious rhyme,

To make the rough recital aptly chime,
Or bring the sum of Gallia's loss to rhyme,