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APPENDIX TO CHAPTERS VIII
AND IX
REMARKS ON ENGLISH AND FRENCH RHYMING
THE following selections are intended to
show how fond
English and French poets were, and still are, of indulging
in poetry consisting of lines varying in length, and of
" "
interlacing and combining rhymes in a most extraordinary
manner.
From George Herbert's Collection of Religious Poems,
"The Temple." Herbert was the man to whom Bacon
dedicated his " Seven Psalms." He lived from 1593 to
1632.
The two opening stanzas of the poem " Discipline "
thus :
Throw away Thy rod,
Throw away Thy wrath ;
O my God,
Take the gentle path.
run
For my heart's desire
Unto Thine is bent :
I aspire
To a full consent.
Here is the first stanza of the poem " Peace " :
Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell ? I humbly crave,
Let me once know.
I thought thee in a secret cave,
And asked if Peace were there.
A hollow wind did seem to answer, " No;
Go seek elsewhere."