Laus Virginitatis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AAAA EFEF GHG IJIJ KAKA LLLL BLBL CMCM NLNL ABAB| The mirror of men's eyes delights me less | A |
| O mirror than the friend I find in thee | B |
| Thou lovest as I love my loveliness | A |
| Thou givest my beauty back to me | B |
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| I to myself suffice why should I tire | C |
| The heart with roaming that would rest at home | D |
| Myself the limit to my own desire | C |
| I have no desire to roam | D |
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| I hear the maidens crying in the hills | A |
| 'Come up among the bleak and perilous ways | A |
| Come up and follow after Love who fills | A |
| The hollows of our nights and days | A |
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| 'Love the deliverer who is desolate | E |
| And saves from desolation the divine | F |
| Out of great suffering Love compassionate | E |
| Who is thy bread and wine | F |
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| 'O soul that faints in following after him ' | - |
| I hear but what is Love that I should tread | G |
| Hard ways among the perilous passes dim | H |
| Who need no succouring wine and bread | G |
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| Enough it is to dream enough to abide | I |
| Here where the loud world's echoes fall remote | J |
| Untroubled unawakened satisfied | I |
| As water lilies float | J |
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| Lonely upon a shadow sheltered pool | K |
| Dreaming of their own whiteness even so | A |
| I dwell within a nest of shadows cool | K |
| And watch the vague hours come and go | A |
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| They come and go but I my own delight | L |
| Remain and I desire no change in aught | L |
| Might I escape indifferent Time's despite | L |
| That ruins all he wrought | L |
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| This dainty body formed so curiously | B |
| So delicately and wonderfully made | L |
| Mine own that none hath ever shared with me | B |
| Mine own and for myself arrayed | L |
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| All this that I have loved and not another | C |
| My one desire's delight this shall Time bring | M |
| Where Beauty hath the abhorred worm for brother | C |
| The dust for covering | M |
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| At least I bear it virgin to the grave | N |
| Pure and apart and rare and casketed | L |
| What living was mine own and no man's slave | N |
| Shall be mine own when I am dead | L |
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| But thou my friend my mirror dost possess | A |
| The shadow of myself that smiles in thee | B |
| And thou dost give with thine own loveliness | A |
| My beauty back to me | B |
Arthur Symons
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