Félise Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 3 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Letter From The Death Poet.
by Kirabo Anthony
Sonnet Ii: Resuscitate Me Back To Life
by Maria Jastine Golo
Dark Glory Of Monarch
by Tamanna Majumdar
A Harmful Leaf
by Alhassan Kamara
Tales And Thorns
by Emmanuel Shadrach
Lost And Lonely
by Eshunson Writes
The Cup
by Emmanuel Shadrach
The Call
by Emmanuel Shadrach
Wheels
by Emmanuel Shadrach
Akinyi
by Noaharry

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Félise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about Félise poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets

WHAT shall be said between us here	A
Among the downs between the trees	B
In fields that knew our feet last year	C
In sight of quiet sands and seas	B
This year F lise	D
	-
Who knows what word were best to say	E
For last year s leaves lie dead and red	F
On this sweet day in this green May	E
And barren corn makes bitter bread	F
What shall be said	F
	-
Here as last year the fields begin	G
A fire of flowers and glowing grass	H
The old fields we laughed and lingered in	G
Seeing each our souls in last year s glass	H
F lise alas	H
	-
Shall we not laugh shall we not weep	I
Not we though this be as it is	J
For love awake or love asleep	I
Ends in a laugh a dream a kiss	K
A song like this	K
	-
I that have slept awake and you	L
Sleep who last year were well awake	M
Though love do all that love can do	L
My heart will never ache or break	M
For your heart s sake	M
	-
The great sea faultless as a flower	N
Throbs trembling under beam and breeze	B
And laughs with love of the amorous hour	N
I found you fairer once F lise	D
Than flowers or seas	B
	-
We played at bondsman and at queen	O
But as the days change men change too	L
I find the grey sea s notes of green	O
The green sea s fervent flakes of blue	L
More fair than you	L
	-
Your beauty is not over fair	P
Now in mine eyes who am grown up wise	D
The smell of flowers in all your hair	P
Allures not now no sigh replies	D
If your heart sighs	D
	-
But you sigh seldom you sleep sound	Q
You find love s new name good enough	R
Less sweet I find it than I found	Q
The sweetest name that ever love	S
Grew weary of	S
	-
My snake with bright bland eyes my snake	M
Grown tame and glad to be caressed	T
With lips athirst for mine to slake	M
Their tender fever who had guessed	T
You loved me best	T
	-
I had died for this last year to know	U
You loved me Who shall turn on fate	V
I care not if love come or go	U
Now though your love seek mine for mate	V
It is too late	V
	-
The dust of many strange desires	W
Lies deep between us in our eyes	D
Dead smoke of perishable fires	W
Flickers a fume in air and skies	D
A steam of sighs	D
	-
You loved me and you loved me not	X
A little much and overmuch	Y
Will you forget as I forget	Z
Let all dead things lie dead none such	Y
Are soft to touch	Y
	-
I love you and I do not love	S
Too much a little not at all	A2
Too much and never yet enough	R
Birds quick to fledge and fly at call	A2
Are quick to fall	A2
	-
And these love longer now than men	B2
And larger loves than ours are these	B
No diver brings up love again	B2
Dropped once my beautiful F lise	D
In such cold seas	B
	-
Gone deeper than all plummets sound	Q
Where in the dim green dayless day	E
The life of such dead things lies bound	Q
As the sea feeds on wreck and stray	E
And castaway	E
	-
Can I forget yea that can I	C2
And that can all men so will you	L
Alive or later when you die	C2
Ah but the love you plead was true	L
Was mine not too	L
	-
I loved you for that name of yours	D2
Long ere we met and long enough	R
Now that one thing of all endures	D2
The sweetest name that ever love	S
Waxed weary of	S
	-
Like colours in the sea like flowers	W
Like a cat s splendid circled eyes	D
That wax and wane with love for hours	W
Green as green flame blue grey like skies	D
And soft like sighs	D
	-
And all these only like your name	E2
And your name full of all of these	B
I say it and it sounds the same	E2
Save that I say it now at ease	B
Your name F lise	D
	-
I said she must be swift and white	F2
And subtly warm and half perverse	G2
And sweet like sharp soft fruit to bite	F2
And like a snake s love lithe and fierce	H2
Men have guessed worse	G2
	-
What was the song I made of you	L
Here where the grass forgets our feet	I2
As afternoon forgets the dew	L
Ah that such sweet things should be fleet	I2
Such fleet things sweet	I2
	-
As afternoon forgets the dew	L
As time in time forgets all men	B2
As our old place forgets us two	L
Who might have turned to one thing then	B2
But not again	B2
	-
O lips that mine have grown into	L
Like April s kissing May	E
O fervent eyelids letting through	L
Those eyes the greenest of things blue	L
The bluest of things grey	E
	-
If you were I and I were you	L
How could I love you say	E
How could the roseleaf love the rue	L
The day love nightfall and her dew	L
Though night may love the day	E
	-
You loved it may be more than I	C2
We know not love is hard to seize	B
And all things are not good to try	C2
And lifelong loves the worst of these	B
For us F lise	D
	-
Ah take the season and have done	J2
Love well the hour and let it go	U
Two souls may sleep and wake up one	J2
Or dream they wake and find it so	U
And then you know	U
	-
Kiss me once hard as though a flame	E2
Lay on my lips and made them fire	N
The same lips now and not the same	E2
What breath shall fill and re inspire	K2
A dead desire	N
	-
The old song sounds hollower in mine ear	A
Than thin keen sounds of dead men s speech	Y
A noise one hears and would not hear	A
Too strong to die too weak to reach	Y
From wave to beach	Y
	-
We stand on either side the sea	L2
Stretch hands blow kisses laugh and lean	O
I toward you you toward me	L2
But what hears either save the keen	O
Grey sea between	O
	-
A year divides us love from love	S
Though you love now though I loved then	B2
The gulf is strait but deep enough	R
Who shall recross who among men	B2
Shall cross again	B2
	-
Love was a jest last year you said	F
And what lives surely surely dies	D
Even so but now that love is dead	F
Shall love rekindle from wet eyes	D
From subtle sighs	D
	-
For many loves are good to see	L2
Mutable loves and loves perverse	G2
But there is nothing nor shall be	L2
So sweet so wicked but my verse	G2
Can dream of worse	G2
	-
For we that sing and you that love	S
Know that which man may only we	L2
The rest live under us above	S
Live the great gods in heaven and see	L2
What things shall be	L2
	-
So this thing is and must be so	U
For man dies and love also dies	D
Though yet love s ghost moves to and fro	U
The sea green mirrors of your eyes	D
And laughs and lies	D
	-
Eyes coloured like a water flower	N
And deeper than the green sea s glass	H
Eyes that remember one sweet hour	N
In vain we swore it should not pass	H
In vain alas	H
	-
Ah my F lise if love or sin	G
If shame or fear could hold it fast	M2
Should we not hold it Love wears thin	G
And they laugh well who laugh the last	M2
Is it not past	M2
	-
The gods the gods are stronger time	N2
Falls down before them all men s knees	B
Bow all men s prayers and sorrows climb	N2
Like incense towards them yea for these	B
Are gods F lise	D
	-
Immortal are they clothed with powers	W
Not to be comforted at all	A2
Lords over all the fruitless hours	W
Too great to appease too high to appal	A2
Too far to call	A2
	-
For none shall move the most high gods	O2
Who are most sad being cruel none	J2
Shall break or take away the rods	O2
Wherewith they scourge us not as one	J2
That smites a son	J2
	-
By many a name of many a creed	P2
We have called upon them since the sands	Q2
Fell through time s hour glass first a seed	P2
Of life and out of many lands	Q2
Have we stretched hands	Q2
	-
When have they heard us who hath known	R2
Their faces climbed unto their feet	I2
Felt them and found them Laugh or groan	R2
Doth heaven remurmur and repeat	I2
Sad sounds or sweet	I2
	-
Do the stars answer in the night	F2
Have ye found comfort or by day	E
Have ye seen gods What hope what light	F2
Falls from the farthest starriest way	E
On you that pray	E
	-
Are the skies wet because we weep	I
Or fair because of any mirth	S2
Cry out they are gods perchance they sleep	I
Cry thou shalt know what prayers are worth	S2
Thou dust and earth	S2
	-
O earth thou art fair O dust thou art great	V
O laughing lips and lips that mourn	T2
Pray till ye feel the exceeding weight	V
Of God s intolerable scorn	T2
Not to be borne	T2
	-
Behold there is no grief like this	K
The barren blossom of thy prayer	P
Thou shalt find out how sweet it is	J
O fools and blind what seek ye there	P
High up in the air	P
	-
Ye must have gods the friends of men	B2
Merciful gods compassio	J