Amours De Voyage, Canto Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHB I JKCDLLKM J GHGNCNNO J GPGGQGGNAJJR J GAJCGS J GCOGAOAGG G JDNGGJOANTOCOCDCDAUD DD JNDGDDAD| Eastward or Northward or West I wander and ask as I wander | A |
| Weary yet eager and sure Where shall I come to my love | B |
| Whitherward hasten to seek her Ye daughters of Italy tell me | C |
| Graceful and tender and dark is she consorting with you | D |
| Thou that out climbest the torrent that tendest thy goats to the summit | E |
| Call to me child of the Alp has she been seen on the heights | F |
| Italy farewell I bid thee for whither she leads me I follow | G |
| Farewell the vineyard for I where I but guess her must go | G |
| Weariness welcome and labour wherever it be if at last it | H |
| Bring me in mountain or plain into the sight of my love | B |
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| I Claude to Eustace from Florence | I |
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| Gone from Florence indeed and that is truly provoking | J |
| Gone to Milan it seems then I go also to Milan | K |
| Five days now departed but they can travel but slowly | C |
| I quicker far and I know as it happens the home they will go to | D |
| Why what else should I do Stay here and look at the pictures | L |
| Statues and churches Alack I am sick of the statues and pictures | L |
| No to Bologna Parma Piacenza Lodi and Milan | K |
| Off go we to night and the Venus go to the Devil | M |
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| II Claude to Eustace from Bellaggio | J |
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| Gone to Como they said and I have posted to Como | G |
| There was a letter left but the cameriere had lost it | H |
| Could it have been for me They came however to Como | G |
| And from Como went by the boat perhaps to the Spl gen | N |
| Or to the Stelvio say and the Tyrol also it might be | C |
| By Porlezza across to Lugano and so to the Simplon | N |
| Possibly or the St Gothard or possibly too to Baveno | N |
| Orta Turin and elsewhere Indeed I am greatly bewildered | O |
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| III Claude to Eustace from Bellaggio | J |
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| I have been up the Spl gen and on the Stelvio also | G |
| Neither of these can I find they have followed in no one inn and | P |
| This would be odd have they written their names I have been to Porlezza | G |
| There they have not been seen and therefore not at Lugano | G |
| What shall I do Go on through the Tyrol Switzerland Deutschland | Q |
| Seeking an inverse Saul a kingdom to find only asses | G |
| There is a tide at least in the love affairs of mortals | G |
| Which when taken at flood leads on to the happiest fortune | N |
| Leads to the marriage morn and the orange flowers and the altar | A |
| And the long lawful line of crowned joys to crowned joys succeeding | J |
| Ah it has ebbed with me Ye gods and when it was flowing | J |
| Pitiful fool that I was to stand fiddle faddling in that way | R |
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| IV Claude to Eustace from Bellaggio | J |
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| I have returned and found their names in the book at Como | G |
| Certain it is I was right and yet I am also in error | A |
| Added in feminine hand I read By the boat to Bellaggio | J |
| So to Bellaggio again with the words of he writing to aid me | C |
| Yet at Bellaggio I find no trace no sort of remembrance | G |
| So I am here and wait and know every hour will remove them | S |
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| V Claude to Eustace from Bellaggio | J |
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| I have but one chance left and that is going to Florence | G |
| But it is cruel to turn The mountains seem to demand me | C |
| Peak and valley from far to beckon and motion me onward | O |
| Somewhere amid their folds she passes whom fain I would follow | G |
| Somewhere amid those heights she haply calls me to seek her | A |
| Ah could I hear her call could I catch the glimpse of her raiment | O |
| Turn however I must though it seem I turn to desert her | A |
| For the sense of the thing is simply to hurry to Florence | G |
| Where the certainty yet may be learnt I suppose from the Ropers | G |
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| VI Mary Trevellyn from Lucerne to Miss Roper at Florence | G |
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| Dear Miss Roper By this you are safely away we are hoping | J |
| Many a league from Rome ere long we trust we shall see you | D |
| How have you travelled I wonder was Mr Claude your companion | N |
| As for ourselves we went from Como straight to Lugano | G |
| So by the Mount St Gothard we meant to go by Porlezza | G |
| Taking the steamer and stopping as you had advised at Bellaggio | J |
| Two or three days or more but this was suddenly altered | O |
| After we left the hotel on the very way to the steamer | A |
| So we have seen I fear not one of the lakes in perfection | N |
| Well he is not come and now I suppose he will not come | T |
| What will you think meantime and yet I must really confess it | O |
| What will you say I wrote him a note We left in a hurry | C |
| Went from Milan to Como three days before we expected | O |
| But I thought if he came all the way to Milan he really | C |
| Ought not to be disappointed and so I wrote three lines to | D |
| Say I had heard he was coming desirous of joining our party | C |
| If so then I said we had started for Como and meant to | D |
| Cross the St Gothard and stay we believed at Lucerne for the summer | A |
| Was it wrong and why if it was has it failed to bring him | U |
| Did he not think it worth while to come to Milan He knew you | D |
| Told him the house we should go to Or may it perhaps have miscarried | D |
| Any way now I repent and am heartily vexed that I wrote it | D |
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| There is a home on the shore of the Alpine sea that upswelling | J |
| High up the mountain sides spreads in the hollow between | N |
| Wilderness mountain and snow from the land of the olive conceal it | D |
| Under Pilatus's hill low by the river it lies | G |
| Italy utter the word and the olive and vine will allure not | D |
| Wilderness forest and snow will not the passage impede | D |
| Italy unto thy cities receding the clue to recover | A |
| Hither recovered the clue shall not the traveller haste | D |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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