Part I
I’ll bid the hyacinth to blow,I’ll teach my grotto green to be;And sing my true love all belowThe holly bower and myrtle tree.
There all his wild-wood sweets to bring,The sweet South wind shall wander by,And with the music of his wingDelight my rustling canopy.
Come to my close and clustering bowerThou spirit of a milder clime,Fresh with the dews of fruit and flower,Of mountain heath, and moory thyme.
With all thy rural echoes come,Sweet comrade of the rosy day,Wafting the wild bee’s gentle hum,Or cuckoo’s plaintive roundelay.
Where’er thy morning breath has played,Whatever isles of ocean fanned,Come to my blossom-woven shade,Thou wandering wind of fairy-land.
For sure from some enchanted isle,Where Heaven and Love their sabbath hold,Where pure and happy spirits smile,Of beauty’s fairest, brightest mould:
From some green Eden of the deep,Where Pleasure’s sigh alone is heaved,Where tears of rapture lovers weep,Endeared, undoubting, undeceived;
From some sweet paradise afar,Thy music wanders, distant, lost—Where Nature lights her leading star,And love is never, never crossed.
Oh gentle gale of Eden bowers,If back thy rosy feet should roam,To revel with the cloudless HoursIn Nature’s more propitious home.
Name to thy loved Elysian groves,That o’er enchanted spirits twine,A fairer form than cherub loves,And let the name be CAROLINE.
Words in this poem
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- clime n.
- A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. [L. clima. See Climate.]
- moory a.
- Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.
- enchanted a.
- Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.
- isle v. t.
- To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island.
- mould n.
- Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil. [OE. molde, AS. molde; akin to D. mul, G. mull, mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, and E. meal flour. See Meal, and cf. Mole a]
- eden n.
- The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence. [Heb. eden delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.]
- afar adv.
- At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. [Pref. a-.(for on or of) + far.]
- cloudless a.
- Without a cloud; clear; bright.
- elysian a.
- Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific. [L. Elysius, fr. Elysium.]
- cherub n.
- A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x. [Heb. kerub.]
- caroline n.
- A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents. Simmonds. [F. carin; cf. It. carlino; -- so called from Carlo (Charles) VI. of Naples.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Part I is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Project Gutenberg ebook #59788; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Thomas Campbell, Part I, in The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems (1824), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #59788, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/campbell-poems/part-i.html, id L24456.
Form and metre
Part I is 40 lines in 10 stanzas of 4 lines each. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, complete in 8 of its 10 stanzas. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 94%).
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABAB blowA · beB · belowA · treeB
- 2 A-A- bringA · by · wingA · canopy
- 3 ABAB bowerA · climeB · flowerA · thymeB
- 4 ABAB comeA · dayB · humA · roundelayB
- 5 ABAB playedA · fannedB · shadeA · landB
- 6 ABAB isleA · holdB · smileA · mouldB
- 7 ABAB deepA · heavedB · weepA · undeceivedB
- 8 ABAB afarA · lostB · starA · crossedB
- 9 ABAB bowersA · roamB · hoursA · homeB
- 10 -A-A groves · twineA · loves · carolineA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| I’ll bid the hyacinth to blow, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| I’ll teach my grotto green to be; | 8 | ···/···· |
| And sing my true love all below | 8 | ········ |
| The holly bower and myrtle tree. | 8 | ·/˘/·/˘· |
| There all his wild-wood sweets to bring, | 8 | ········ |
| The sweet South wind shall wander by, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| And with the music of his wing | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Delight my rustling canopy. | 8 | ˘/·/˘/˘˘ |
| Come to my close and clustering bower | 8 | ·····/˘/ |
| Thou spirit of a milder clime, | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| Fresh with the dews of fruit and flower, | 9 | ·······/˘ |
| Of mountain heath, and moory thyme. | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| With all thy rural echoes come, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| Sweet comrade of the rosy day, | 8 | ·/···/˘· |
| Wafting the wild bee’s gentle hum, | 8 | /˘···/˘· |
| Or cuckoo’s plaintive roundelay. | 8 | ·/˘/˘/˘˘ |
| Where’er thy morning breath has played, | 9 | ˘˘/·/˘··· |
| Whatever isles of ocean fanned, | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| Come to my blossom-woven shade, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| Thou wandering wind of fairy-land. | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| For sure from some enchanted isle, | 8 | ····˘/˘· |
| Where Heaven and Love their sabbath hold, | 8 | ·/···/˘· |
| Where pure and happy spirits smile, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| Of beauty’s fairest, brightest mould: | 8 | ·/˘/˘/˘· |
| From some green Eden of the deep, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Where Pleasure’s sigh alone is heaved, | 8 | ·/˘·˘/·· |
| Where tears of rapture lovers weep, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| Endeared, undoubting, undeceived; | 8 | ˘/······ |
| From some sweet paradise afar, | 8 | ···/˘·˘/ |
| Thy music wanders, distant, lost— | 8 | ·/˘/˘/˘· |
| Where Nature lights her leading star, | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| And love is never, never crossed. | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| Oh gentle gale of Eden bowers, | 9 | ·/˘··/˘/˘ |
| If back thy rosy feet should roam, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| To revel with the cloudless Hours | 9 | ·/˘··/˘/˘ |
| In Nature’s more propitious home. | 8 | ·/˘·˘/˘· |
| Name to thy loved Elysian groves, | 8 | ····˘/˘· |
| That o’er enchanted spirits twine, | 8 | ··˘/˘/˘· |
| A fairer form than cherub loves, | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| And let the name be CAROLINE. | 8 | ·····/˘· |
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