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Sacred And Profane Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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In the dark shadow of the windless pines	A
Whose gloomy glory lines the obsequies	A
Of the gaunt Claudian Aqueduct along	B
The lone Campagna to sepulchral Rome	C
A Northern youth companionless reclined	D
Pondering on records of the Roman Past	E
Kingdom Republic Empire longwhile gone	F
Hard by through marble tomb revivified	E
Rippled and bubbled water crystalline	G
Inwelling from the far off Sabine hills	A
When lo upon the tomb's deep dinted rim	H
Slowly there broadened on his gaze two shapes	A
Material embodiment of those	A
The great Venetian in resplendent hues	A
Upon the canvas lastingly portrayed	E
Christened by fame Profane and Sacred Love	I
One was in rich habiliments arrayed	E
With dimpling folds about her rounded limbs	A
And heaving corset of embossed brocade	E
Compressing beaker for her brimming breasts	A
Jewels were in her hair jewels entwined	E
Themselves round her columnar throat and thus	A
On him she gazed unshrinkingly and seemed	E
Sensuous seduction irresistible	J
The other in nude innocency clad	E
All save veined vineleaf cincture round her waist	E
Sate with her gaze averted and beheld	E
Only her image trembling in the wave	K
Her had he fain accosted but the dread	E
Of violating her aloofness checked	E
The movement of his mind and held him mute	E
So to the One resplendently enrobed	E
Familiarly fearless as herself	L
He turned albeit his thought was otherwhere	M
As elsewhere his desire and boldly said	E
If with your earthly seeming be conjoined	E
Gift and capacity of earthly speech	N
Speak to me earthly an you will and break	O
The all too spacious silence with your voice ''	P
Her curving lips whose fulness seemed to pledge	Q
Intoxicating kisses drooped apart	E
And to her orbs upsurged volcanic fire	M
As she with prompt unhesitating voice	A
Commanding more than musical rejoined	E
Whereat that Other ever and anon	G
Would for a moment turn to him her face	A
To note the interpretation of his heart	E
And wavering of his will and then once more	M
Her look averted to the Sabine hills	A
And cloudless vault of overarching Heaven	G
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Profane Love speaks	A
I am the Goddess mortals call Profane	G
Yet worship me as though I were divine	G
Over their lives unrecognised I reign	G
For all their thoughts are mine	G
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I was coeval with the peopled Earth	R
And while it lasts I likewise shall endure	M
For Destiny endowed me at my birth	R
With every mundane lure	M
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Men rear no marble temple to my name	S
No statues mould in Minster or in mart	E
Yet in their longings silently proclaim	S
My throne is on their heart	E
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Unto the phantom Deities of air	M
They pay lip homage carven altars raise	A
To these bow down with ceremonial prayer	M
And sycophantic praise	A
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With them I kneel but neither praise nor pray	M
While tapers burn hymns float and organ rolls	A
Because I know that there too can I sway	M
And stupefy their souls	A
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Their pompous flatteries are not for me	T
My panegyric is the secret sigh	U
Wherefore should mortals monuments decree	T
To Me who cannot die	U
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I am the fountain of wealth titles power	M
'Tis I ordain the pedestal and bust	E
When there doth toll the inevitable hour	M
The hour of death and dust	E
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Ruby and pearl and diamond and the ore	M
Torn from the entrails of the Earth are mine	G
Mine are the cargoes shipped from shore to shore	M
Spices and silks and wine	G
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Wherewith men buy what crafty barter brings	A
Greater the gain more hazardous the risks	A
Toil from the many coronets from Kings	A
And lust from odalisques	A
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If such content not since your hopes aspire	M
On heights of popularity to tower	M
I can conduct you on yet swifter tire	M
To winning peak of Power	M
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Then without scruple pity or restraint	E
Cleave you your conquering way for there is nought	E
Of all that worldlings crave and hirelings paint	E
But can be seized or bought	E
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Myriads from mine and furrow quay and loom	V
Shall congregate to hear you pledge and prate	E
Hailing you heaven sent warder off of gloom	V
And Saviour of the State	E
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And lissom sirens temptingly attired	E
With heartless hearts self seeking as your own	G
By your sonorous phrases will be fired	E
And gather round your throne	G
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Platform and Senate Cabinet and Court	E
You shall cajole convert or overawe	M
Whithersoe'er you speciously disport	E
Your wordy Will be law	W
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But many and many a worshipper have I	U
So cannot grant monopoly of power	M
Others there be who fain would climb as high	U
As you and have their hour	M
	-
Then their ambition with your own will shock	X
And they awhile on foremost seat may reign	G
Men's favour is a quicksand not a rock	X
And veers like gust and vane	G
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Then must you with invectives fume and rage	Y
All through the land denouncing evil times	A
With histrionic passion 'tis a stage	Y
For mountebanks and mimes	A
	-
Slandering the foes who slander you and so	A
If thousands hate thousands will hail your name	S
Till you in notoriety shall grow	A
The herd confound with Fame	S
	-
Them that o'erwhelm vindictiveness o'erwhelms	A
So nought shall you from Fortune's wheel entice	A
Gambling for Self's predominance with Realms	A
And Empires for your dice	A
	-
If with the years male energy should wane	G
Orders and honours on you shall be shed	E
Thus will you still in man's remembrance reign	G
A halo round your head	E
	-
And when at length the End of all life's ends	A
Doth with the little lay the mighty down	G
And domination finally descends	A
Graveward without its Crown	G
	-
Processions populous bedizened hearse	A
And mourners ermined shall your dust convey	M
To pompous tomb and vying prose and verse	A
Protract your little day	M
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What though your name grow faint as time recedes	A
Like scarce heard wave upon a far off shore	M
And wax the record of your words and deeds	A
A voice and nothing more	M
	-
You will have drained all that the world can give	Z
All boons and blandishments of Love Profane	G
Success and homage for which sane men live	A2
And all the rest is vain ''	-
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She ceased and as she ceased then Sacred Love	I
That ever and anon meanwhile had bent	E
On him her look and smilingly surmised	E
From his vague gaze and inattentive ears	A
That he was only waiting for Her voice	A
Like to the moon fleeting through fleecy clouds	A
Her undissembled beauty on him bared	E
And with a voice like sylvan rivulet	E
That haunts the woodlands muffled half by leaves	A
Serene and slow with silvery clearness spake	O
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In the unseen first fostering of breath	B2
Whose secret is by Science vainly sought	E
Uncertain borderland 'twixt Life and Death	B2
I share the silence of the Mother's thought	E
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Her love is not more anxious than is mine	G
Together we await the human cry	U
For even then I Sacred Love divine	G
If it will grow to voice that may not die	U
	-
And I its foster mother am and feed	E
Its suckling dreams and watch it waxing strong	B
Giving it for its plaything moorland reed	E
That it may grow and ripen into Song	B
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For Love Profane doth sleeplessly await	E
Its coming to mislead it on its way	M
Whispering Become what Greatness deemeth great	E
Till mighty Rulers recognise your sway '	-
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I listened tremblingly while Love Profane	G
Strove to entice you to the worldling's throne	G
Along the worldling's way but strove in vain	G
Now hath She gone and we are here alone ''	-
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His gaze that had on Her who thuswise spake	O
Fastened since indivisibly intent	E
Upon the cadence of her voice quick turned	E
At these last words to look for Love Profane	G
But lo its effigy from marble rim	H
Had vanished like the face of Roman sway	M
Kingship Republic Empire and the flow	A
Of water welling through the rifled tomb	V
Was the sole sound he heard until her voice	A
Melodiously measured spake once more	M
	-
Rise and come near to me and take my hand	E
And lay your cheek against my cheek for sign	G
That you henceforth will know and understand	E
That all the children of the Muse are mine	G
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Your parent am I though I seem so young	C2