The Accuser by I-Like-Rhymes at All poetry

She stood breast high amidst the corn
Much beautiful and excellent and fair
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled
Oh how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
When with a serious musing I behold
All the sad spaces of oblivion,

I come! I come” ye have called me long
To kinder skies where gentler manners reign
After a thousand mazes overgone.
And is she happy. Does she seem unmoved
As some fond virgin, whom her mother’s care
Has sorrow thy young days shaded.

Let other bards of angels sing
She was a creature framed by love divine
Of Eden planted; Eden stretched her line
Beyond the shadow of the ship
Ye mariners of England
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan.

If I have sinned in act, I may repent
Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know!
And chase this silence from the air,
This day whate’er the fates decree
Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire
Take, oh, take those lips away.

My soul, turn from them! Turn we to survey
The everlasting universe of things
All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Farewell! –God knows when we shall meet again
I hold it true whate’er befalls
There is no truth of any good.
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The minstrel boy to the war is gone.
The harp that once through Tara ’s halls
That mutters deep and dread
The soul of music slumbers in the shell,
Heard ye the din of battle bray
The prisoned eagle dies for rage
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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waydownuponjoy
April 8

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I'm glad that you ...
are around here and I thought long & hard about giving this contest and 'new form to me' a go ... but I like you were running a wee bit behind schedule and probably chose wandering first! Nice work and I thought it read pretty well. joy
- I-Like-Rhymes
  April 8
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  It is good to know that there are some people who read the notes that sometimes accompany the poems. Thanks for your support in reading my work this evening.
  Jim
MariGoes
March 18

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You are too hard with yourself!
This does look very good to me. maybe in some stanzas the lines are better entwined than with others, but over all a very good work!
How great to see how poems written so long ago inspire us to create such good work.
Well done Jim and your links are the most organized I've seen so far
- I-Like-Rhymes
  March 19
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  Thanks for those flattering words.
  The poems were all from a book published approximately 100 years ago and they were old then
  I'm afraid I had to cheat with a couple that were not already on Oldpoetry and add them there myself
  This was the first I had heard of the CENTO type of poem and I enjoyed learning.
  I'll try to stick to the timetable better next time
  Jim
- - MariGoes
    March 19
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    Aha! You are something
    Tsk tsk
Wandika
March 18
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A Most Difficult Write
to be sure with this on Jim.

Good luck in the contest.

Jim
- I-Like-Rhymes
  March 18
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  Alas an hour or two too late for the contest but that is probably for the best because this was not as good as most of the others anyway
  Still for a first effort in this format it was fun and though the story line was difficult to get across using mainly first lines (they were all first lines in the book) I now know some of the problems and will do better next time.
  Thanks for reading and for being diplomatic