Amours De Voyage, Canto V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH I IFGJKFLAMKF N I KOKKMCP Q QRMP I OKIOO S OTOUGGMLFVKWAXW N FKOFYCFZFWDO N FWIIFA2O B2WPWKC2D2 EMOFEE2EMN FMXF2WUF2KF KKKG2DFFWF N KANMOUPH2I2OFOJ2QOK2There is a city upbuilt on the quays of the turbulent Arno | A |
Under Fiesole's heights thither are we to return | B |
There is a city that fringes the curve of the inflowing waters | C |
Under the perilous hill fringes the beautiful bay | D |
Parthenope do they call thee the Siren Neapolis seated | E |
Under Vesevus's hill are we receding to thee | F |
Sicily Greece will invite and the Orient or are we turn to | G |
England which may after all be for its children the best | H |
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I Mary Trevellyn at Lucerne to Miss Roper at Florence | I |
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So you are really free and living in quiet at Florence | I |
That is delightful news you travelled slowly and safely | F |
Mr Claude got you out took rooms at Florence before you | G |
Wrote from Milan to say so had left directly for Milan | J |
Hoping to find us soon if he could he would you are certain | K |
Dear Miss Roper your letter has made me exceedingly happy | F |
You are quite sure you say he asked you about our intentions | L |
You had not heard as yet of Lucerne but told him of Como | A |
Well perhaps he will come however I will not expect it | M |
Though you say you are sure if he can he will you are certain | K |
O my dear many thanks from your ever affectionate Mary | F |
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II Claude to Eustace | N |
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Florence | I |
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Action will furnish belief but will that belief be the true one | K |
This is the point you know However it doesn't much matter | O |
What one wants I suppose is to predetermine the action | K |
So as to make it entail not a chance belief but the true one | K |
Out of the question you say if a thing isn't wrong we may do it | M |
Ah but this wrong you see but I do not know that it matters | C |
Eustace the Ropers are gone and no one can tell me about them | P |
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Pisa | Q |
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Pisa they say they think and so I follow to Pisa | Q |
Hither and thither inquiring I weary of making inquiries | R |
I am ashamed I declare of asking people about it | M |
Who are your friends You said you had friends who would certainly know them | P |
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Florence | I |
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But it is idle moping and thinking and trying to fix her | O |
Image once more and more in to write the whole perfect inscription | K |
Over and over again upon every page of remembrance | I |
I have settled to stay at Florence to wait for your answer | O |
Who are your friends Write quickly and tell me I wait for your answer | O |
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III Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper at Lucca Baths | S |
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You are at Lucca baths you tell me to stay for the summer | O |
Florence was quite too hot you can't move further at present | T |
Will you not come do you think before the summer is over | O |
Mr C got you out with very considerable trouble | U |
And he was useful and kind and seemed so happy to serve you | G |
Didn't stay with you long but talked very openly to you | G |
Made you almost his confessor without appearing to know it | M |
What about and you say you didn't need his confessions | L |
O my dear Miss Roper I dare not trust what you tell me | F |
Will he come do you think I am really so sorry for him | V |
They didn't give him my letter at Milan I feel pretty certain | K |
You had told him Bellaggio We didn't go to Bellaggio | W |
So he would miss our track and perhaps never come to Lugano | A |
Where we were written in full To Lucerne across the St Gothard | X |
But he could write to you you would tell him where you were going | W |
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IV Claude to Eustace | N |
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Let me then bear to forget her I will not cling to her falsely | F |
Nothing factitious or forced shall impair the old happy relation | K |
I will let myself go forget not try to remember | O |
I will walk on my way accept the chances that meet me | F |
Freely encounter the world imbibe these alien airs and | Y |
Never ask if new feelings and thoughts are of her or of others | C |
Is she not changing herself the old image would only delude me | F |
I will be bold too and change if it must be Yet if in all things | Z |
Yet if I do but aspire evermore to the Absolute only | F |
I shall be doing I think somehow what she will be doing | W |
I shall be thine O my child some way though I know not in what way | D |
Let me submit to forget her I must I already forget her | O |
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V Claude to Eustace | N |
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Utterly vain is alas this attempt at the Absolute wholly | F |
I who believed not in her because I would fain believe nothing | W |
Have to believe as I may with a wilful unmeaning acceptance | I |
I who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence | I |
In the rich earth cling now to the hard naked rock that is left me | F |
Ah she was worthy Eustace and that indeed is my comfort | A2 |
Worthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her | O |
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Yes it relieves me to write though I do not send and the chance that | B2 |
Takes may destroy my fragments But as men pray without asking | W |
Whether One really exist to hear or do anything for them | P |
Simply impelled by the need of the moment to turn to a Being | W |
In a conception of whom there is freedom from all limitation | K |
So in your image I turn to an ens rationis of friendship | C2 |
Even so write in your name I know not to whom nor in what wise | D2 |
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There was a time methought it was but lately departed | E |
When if a thing was denied me I felt I was bound to attempt it | M |
Choice alone should take and choice alone should surrender | O |
There was a time indeed when I had not retired thus early | F |
Languidly thus from pursuit of a purpose I once had adopted | E |
But it is all over all that I have slunk from the perilous field in | E2 |
Whose wild struggle of forces the prizes of life are contested | E |
It is over all that I am a coward and know it | M |
Courage in me could be only factitious unnatural useless | N |
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Comfort has come to me here in the dreary streets of the city | F |
Comfort how do you think with a barrel organ to bring it | M |
Moping along the streets and cursing my day as I wandered | X |
All of a sudden my ear met the sound of an English psalm tune | F2 |
Comfort me it did till indeed I was very near crying | W |
Ah there is some great truth partial very likely but needful | U |
Lodged I am strangely sure in the tones of the English psalm tune | F2 |
Comfort it was at least and I must take without question | K |
Comfort however it come in the dreary streets of the city | F |
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I shall behold thee again is it so at a new visitation | K |
O ill genius thou I shall at my life's dissolution | K |
When the pulses are weak and the feeble light of the reason | K |
Flickers an unfed flame retiring slow from the socket | G2 |
Low on a sick bed laid hear one as it were at the doorway | D |
And looking up see thee standing by looking emptily at me | F |
I shall entreat thee then though now I dare to refuse thee | F |
Pale and pitiful now but terrible then to the dying | W |
Well I will see thee again and while I can will repel thee | F |
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VI Claude to Eustace | N |
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Rome is fallen I hear the gallant Medici taken | K |
Noble Manara slain and Garibaldi has lost il Moro | A |
Rome is fallen and fallen or falling heroical Venice | N |
I meanwhile for the loss of a single small chit of a girl sit | M |
Moping and mourning here for her and myself much smaller | O |
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle | U |
Die in the lost lost fight for the cause that perishes with them | P |
Are they upborne from the field on the slumberous pinions of angels | H2 |
Unto a far off home where the weary rest from their labour | I2 |
And the deep wounds are healed and the bitter and burning moisture | O |
Wiped from the generous eyes or do they linger unhappy | F |
Pining and haunting the grave of their by gone hope and endeavour | O |
All declamation alas though I talk I care not for Rome nor | J2 |
Italy feebly and faintly and but with the lips can lament the | Q |
Wreck of the Lombard youth and the victory of the oppressor | O |
Whither depart the brave God knows | K2 |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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